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I cleaned up the family attic last week. I had
been prepared to ___1___
at least three days finishing the job. Little did I ___2___
that much more time was required.
It was ___3___
the accumulated junk to be tidied that ___4___
up most of the time that I had bargained
___5___ . What ___6___
me preoccupied was discovering the things ___7___
had sentimental value, and reliving the memories
that came flooding ___8___
. I spent the greater part of my time running up and ___9___
the stairs, yelling ___10___
my wife, son or daughter, ___11___
them the history of every little item.
I found my high school photographs and ___12___
the good old days of accidentally breaking windows
with baseballs. I found my son's first ___13___
of shoes. Then there was the painting of me that my
daughter had ___14___
in kindergarten. My wife's knitting, which she
aborted ___15___
trying to knit me a sweater, lies among the junk ___16___.
So, it was this incessant reminiscing of times ___17___
by which hindered my progress. I suspect that a the
end of it all, I have ___18___
as much junk as before, for I could not ___19___
to throw most of the things ___20___
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