Perhaps it happened gradually - a rosary in one hand, a Budweiser in the other, half saint, half goat.
Perhaps it happened as a child at the family dinner table, when looking around, she saw faces that did not mirror her own.
Perhaps it happened to you before that you've just decided to treat yourself to a quiet, cozy evening at home, over a film you've been meaning to watch for a long time but never had the time to.
So as well as being good for the country, the debate, if and perhaps when it happens, might even be moderately good for Mr Brown.
Perhaps because it happens too infrequently, I love working quietly in the basement where our rare and collectible books are housed and where I can (without interruption) do research on inscriptions, signatures, first editions, etc.
Perhaps it just happens to be the shape that an American family outing takes, especially when the weather isn't fabulous.
All we need tonight to celebrate Tim is what baseball provides so often: something different but exactly the same — another great baseball moment, with the right man on hand to bring it to us with clarity and understanding, perhaps even before it happens.
"If it can happen to some of the world's largest banks then perhaps it could happen in sport too.
But unlike the cities' troubles, which generated a national debate about causes and solutions, the rural collapse has been largely silent, perhaps because it happened so slowly.
Perhaps it could happen again.
