71.   So I was a little surprised when, after reading the first few chapters, I found myself feeling sorry for her.

72.   Still, there is one moment in the first chapter that reads today like an eerie, inadvertent prophecy.

73.   That love is not obvious, at least not in the first chapter, which is a graphic account of the decline and death of her parents.

74.   The computer had eaten my first chapter twice.

75.   The first chapter follows the last, yet the second one precedes the third but occurs after the first, indicating that the tragic spectacle is defiantly eternal.

76.   The first chapter offers tips and training techniques for the skating-challenged.

77.   The first chapters have already been written.

78.   The first few chapters have been lousy for the Mets.

79.   The first chapter is about the real-life heroics of firefighters, and the last chapter is about the Afghan general who did battle with the Taliban.

80.   The first chapter of a potentially long book is still being written in Palm Beach County.