When we lost those cheerleaders we had to change our whole routine. That really took a lot of the difficulty out of our routine.

I was pleased with the score. We all knew our routine wasn't as difficult as some of the other squads competing. It took a lot of courage for our cheerleaders to go out on the mat knowing that.

When things are going well, you don?t want to change anything about your routine.

I change my old routine and I was going to do a new one. But I went back to my old routine. It wasn't one of my best.

Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.

Typically the [federal government] makes a tax change and the states conform. It's a routine event. The fact that states haven't conformed yet doesn't mean they are not going to.