51.   He was supposed to meet friends in Vegas on Friday, then drive up to Lake Tahoe for a ski weekend.

52.   He who came to Atlanta for the Super Bowl parties and met his friends, Lollar and Baker, at Cobalt.

53.   Hogwarts is where he meets his best friend, Ron.

54.   His wife drives her Mercury to the same bingo game, and afterward the two go separately to other malls to meet friends.

55.   I felt I had met a friend.

56.   I met a friend for coffee, and as I pulled up, a crowd gathered.

57.   I went to Paris and met two friends, Claude Durand, my publisher at Fayard, and Michel Piccoli, the actor.

58.   In Atlanta later that week, I met a friend who also was carrying a digital camera.

59.   In October, my husband and I flew to Charleston, S.C., to meet our friend Charles Miller and help take his trawler south in the Intracoastal Waterway.

60.   In the next couple of months, I would meet new friends, become intimately acquainted with poison oak, blackened toenails, turned ankles and minor scrapes.