21.   Nothing, it seemed, could stand in their way this time.

22.   Our call goes out again for pumpkin bread made with yogurt and black walnuts for Carole C., who asked the first time way back in February.

23.   People expect me to pitch that way every time.

24.   Pictures nearly fill the cabin walls, bridging in some poor way the time until we convene again.

25.   So it looks like the Stars are going to have to do it the hard way this time.

26.   Tantalizingly ambiguous, their dance suggested to Powell the way that time and circumstance bring people together and then push them apart.

27.   The man at the next table looked our way several times but when I smiled just to be friendly he quickly stared into his calamari.

28.   The public and its elected leaders should have caught on by now that the game goes the same way every time.

29.   There would be no dead bodies on the way this time.

30.   They came in the same way both times.