31.   It was a terrible off season because I lost my mother and grandmother but I had signed this new deal so I should have been truly happy.

32.   It seems a sad life for a child, losing a mother and watching friends die of the same disease that likely will eventually kill her.

33.   Jamil Diaz lost a mother.

34.   Last May, Barbara Pryor lost her mother, who had been such a comfort after Sarah disappeared.

35.   Last year, he lost his mother to cancer.

36.   Linnie Washington lost her mother, too.

37.   Marilyn Quayle lost her mother to breast cancer.

38.   My friend Jill lost her mother about the same time I did mine.

39.   Now, lawyers, politicians and some Cuban-American activists are making the tortured argument that because Elian lost his mother, he should also lose his father.

40.   One child lost a mother in the accident and the other lost both parents.