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When Sandy got there, he took forever to answer the bell. She was 33 _________ about to leave when he opened the door.

She followed him upstairs to a large living room that would have been lovely if he tidied it once in a while. There were stacks of books everywhere, a pile of papers, a mountain of manuscripts on the desk and half eaten food on the coffee table. He obviously lived alone and needed a housekeeper desperately. He was as untidy as his living room. He had a long, unkempt beard, a mane of wild white hair that 34 _________ Sally of Albert Einstein.

Sandy could 35 _________ figure out his age.

He seemed to be about seventy, 36 _________. Berta told her later that he was only sixty. He said that he liked her book.

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Mary

When Mary left her office, she walked home to her apartment on Twilight Road. The chill of the early morning made her 30 ______ her hands into the pockets of her stylish jacket and pick up her pace. The weather brought to mind a long-forgotten line from Little Women.

One of the sisters — she couldn’t  31 ______ whether it was Berth or Amy — said that November was a disagreeable month, and Jo agreed, commenting that that was why she was born in it.

Me, too, Mary thought, “My birthday is November the twenty-forth. The Thanksgiving baby they called me. Thanksgiving and birthdays 32 ______ to be fun, but not for me. I had to jog between two dinners and there was no one to help me.

It was a problem to manage two dinners in different places at the same time. Of course, my domestic problem is small, compared with Millie’s,” she thought as she 33 ______ her street and turned west.

Millie was her best friend and she was in 34 ______.

Yesterday her meeting with Millie was strange. Millie had stayed at the office for about an hour. Over a cup of tea, Millie had insisted that Mary keep the turquoise ring. “If something were to happen to me, it’s important that you have it just in 35 ______ the woman who phoned you contacts you again,” she had said.