[Q]: How does the sentence end?

Justin went on a fast for a day, but Michael did not because 

[A]: Michael happens to be an atheist.


[Q]: How does the sentence end?

Randy suffers from very bad headaches but Joseph does not. 

[A]: Joseph went to the store to get some flu medicine.


[Q]: How does the sentence end?

To save the ship, we had to lose the anchor and not the lifeboat since the 

[A]:
anchor was heavy.