31.   She allots the same sum for Calvary Hospital nearby, known for its humane care of terminal patients, because her sister died of cancer there.

32.   She watches her sister die.

33.   Sisters of centenarians died at a rate about one-half of the national level.

34.   That prompted a groan of frustration from Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, whose two sisters died of breast cancer.

35.   That was the year an older sister died of emphysema, and Gordy went into the hospital with pancreatitis.

36.   That year, a sister died from mouth cancer.

37.   The rescuers survived, but the sisters died.

38.   The year that his father left, his elder sister died of leukemia.

39.   Then his sister died, and he seized his moment.

40.   Two years later another sister died of an unspecified illness.