Participants often felt the need for more time to decide with their male partner and expressed the wish that the letter had come earlier, though the letters typically arrive one month before storage expiration date.
The test of faith for which Father Bernard Kinvi had waited half his life arrived one January dawn when a heavily armed man with a necklace of talismans pulled up on a motorbike outside the Roman Catholic mission hospital in Bossemptele.
Arriving on Dec. 18 is one of the year's heartiest pleasures, Quentin Tarantino's audacious World War II adventure, "Inglourious Basterds" (with Brad Pitt, left).
Arriving one sunny July morning, my helper and I quickly won a temporary pitch on the edge of the canal.
One arrived on Oct. 18, from Aventis Pharmaceuticals and Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, who jointly market Actonel, an osteoporosis drug.
Souza also advises waiting until January to send holiday-related thanks: "If it arrives on Dec. 22, no one will have time to open it".
With several magazines tucked into his coat pockets, he arrived one snowy December evening at Lonoff's door.
But Taliban soldiers who arrived one frosty February morning smashed his remaining lower half with hammers and ordered museum staff to collect the fragments.
I arrived one night last month to find this hairy and scary welcome mat plastered to the ground, mottled with dirt and squishy with water: roadkill after a rainstorm.
A year after Kevin and Tracy Coyle bought a second home here among the oak trees -- "our dream house, our sanctuary," Ms. Coyle called it -- they said they arrived one weekend in April to find bullet holes in the bedroom, broken wallboard on the floor and damage to their cathedral ceilings.
