A list will help

1. My mother is in the other room doubled over in pain. Kabag when the stomach expands with air and, according to my mother and the folk wisdom to which she subscribes, kabag is detected by lightly tapping the engorged belly. If it sounds like a drum, there is air.
2. And as much as I want to trust the old saying someone will come, just wait, waiting leaves much to be desired.
3. On the only date I ever allowed myself to participate in, I met a wonderful woman. 
4. Been recently reading a lot of Lizzie Bennet/William Darcy fanfiction, the best of which is titled Somewhere Between a Beginning, a Middle, and an End