51.   No one sympathizes, unless the friend dies, which she did not.

52.   No one understood the reason for his crestfallen demeanor until he disclosed that a close friend had died on Thursday.

53.   Other friends die off one by one.

54.   Researchers and activists are especially alarmed by anecdotal evidence of some gay men becoming fatalistic about AIDS after seeing friend after friend die.

55.   Sasha and Oxsana have watched many friends die from AIDS.

56.   Sean never said he was sorry his friend had died.

57.   She said she became concerned when a close friend died of leukemia three years ago.

58.   She was at the hospital every day, and was in the room when her friend died.

59.   She watched her best friend die of cancer.

60.   Sometimes, he says, he also thinks about how his friends died.