"I had racked up student loans, and throughout college and beyond, I'd swiftly turned every credit card application into those magical slivers of plastic that allowed me to pay for daily necessities," she wrote.
"Leap of Faith" officially opened on April 26 to reviews so bad that many thought it would swiftly close.
The settlements are so established, he said, that even if, magically, an Israeli and Palestinian agreement based on the 1967 borders could emerge, it would swiftly collapse.
I suspect that would swiftly end the practice of bestowing multimillions on those at the top who fail.
Don't get me wrong, I always hoped the club would swiftly move back to Coventry so that keen local supporters could turn up week in, week out, like I did when I was growing up.
I used to believe that writers would swiftly forget my brief conversations with them as they signed my books; that I was anonymous and inconsequential.
I'd been swiftly checked in to my room in the Butterfly House, where a fire was laid and the refrigerator stocked with gourmet root beer, Hawaiian flatbread crackers, macadamia nut cookies and other imaginative treats, all free.
Few expected that the problems would swiftly get personal.
Britain would swiftly have to negotiate bilateral deals with dozens of countries.
And it was as inevitable that hip-hop purists would swiftly cry foul.
