Looking for another pod tip

I have an item text list.  Not all the items have content besides the 
text, and so the pod would collapse them together into adjacent lines, 
whereas I want them separated.  I did this by adding a NBSP, but then I 
get an extra line that I'd rather not have.

Here's an example

      Category "LC_NUMERIC": Numeric formatting
          This indicates how numbers should be formatted for human 
readability,
          for example the character used as the decimal point.

      Category "LC_MONETARY": Formatting of monetary amounts


      Category "LC_TIME": Date/Time formatting


      Category "LC_MESSAGES": Error and other messages
          This is used by Perl itself only for accessing operating 
system error
          messages via $! and $^E.


I don't know if your email client will collapse the lines, but there are 
two empty ones after the two items that don't have accompanying text. 
Any ideas as how to get rid of one?