61.  As background to my total, humiliating disintegration, let me tell you what I did last weekend.

62.  As bad a condition as I was in, I refused to let it defeat me."

63.  As bad as it is on me, it's worse on my old dogs.

64.  Despite a cynical ring, this reasoning makes sense to me, but it also seems largely irrelevant.

65.  Democratize me, beginning with the man who examined my luggage on the dock in 1927.

66.  Despite my disguise, he spotted me.

67.  Despite my enthusiasm for a delicious-tasting phony fat, there's one thing about olestra's potential that troubles me.

68.  Despite my husband's misgivings, it looks nice on the bathroom wall, though I don't think any one but me has given it a lot of thought.

69.  Despite my many errant kicks, a teammate passed me the ball left of the goal.

70.  Despite my preference for chocolate chip cookie aroma as an aphrodisiac, I concede that the smell of lavender arouses me, too.