21.   Brett asked with a hearty laugh Saturday.

22.   Bush asked with a bit of that now-trademark smirk.

23.   But it was asked with real concern, not the political speculation and odds-making that fill the television airwaves.

24.   But, he asked with a sigh, how?

25.   Campo asked with a grin.

26.   Christie asked with a grin.

27.   Curtis asks with the utmost courtesy.

28.   Curtis Gunn, a founder of an unusual new modeling agency called the Shot, asked with a rhetorical flourish.

29.   Dave asked with concern.

30.   Debbie called the hospital to inquire, but she could not summon the strength to ask with the urgency she felt.