"ON THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 19, 2001, on the South Side of Chicago, Aloysius Oliver was sitting on his back porch with his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Johanna Harris."
"Following a game at my home club, I like to sit out on the back porch with a turkey Reuben on grilled rye bread, and an iced coffee, look out at the last difficult hundred yards of Roger Rulewichs marvelous eighteenth hole, and listen to people at the other tables talk about the rounds theyve just finished."
"Doris Ann ran to the back porch and brought back the dropcord."