41.   His large family gathered daily around the table.

42.   His family gathered at his bedside.

43.   Imagine the entire family gathered around a heavily laden Thanksgiving table.

44.   In an emotional panic, the family gathered a few clothes and moved into a hotel.

45.   In Ireland, too many families gathered in the ritual of the American Wake, saying farewells that were often as final as death.

46.   In many households on Sunday, however, families gathered in front of television sets to watch specially programmed reruns of favorite films and musical shows.

47.   In monthly rituals held simultaneously across the Arhuaco nation, families gather in forests or on hillsides under the guidance of mamos.

48.   In the evenings the family gathers around the television set to play trivia games.

49.   In the evening, the family would gather around the dinner table, where Robert Gingrich would quiz and challenge his children about school, history and world events.

50.   Instead, the family gathers for its simple nightly fare around four purple candles nesting inside a few pine boughs tethered together with a single strand of rose-colored tinsel.