Hi @Carol_McBride I see you have posted about this before. Were you able to add friends in Facebook? In what way are you unable to ask friends for lives?
In the meantime try restarting the game... Often when I restart or just randomly it will offer different friends to play a level with. What is the device you are playing on? You could also try clearing the cache for the app.
@Lisa_Young you get the last 5 levels of the episode tomorrow as you are in a test group. You would have started getting the levels before the Wednesday release and then 5 a day until you get the 20. Some will be in this test group and others will not.