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I had to be down within 5 minutes of the first slammed door if I hoped to get any breakfast. This daily 36 ______ in the household never varied.

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Memories

Jessica was having dinner with her family. They were listening to jazz music and discussing the history of jazz. Jessica 30 ______ quickly at her mom and asked if she had listened to jazz while growing up.

“Oh, all the time! I can 31 ______ think of an evening without jazz music at home,” she exclaimed.

“My dad was really keen 32 ______ jazz and swing music. He was a pianist himself. He learned how to play from his father – my grandfather — who was around when swing music was just becoming popular,” she explained.

“When was that?” Jessica asked.

“Well, swing music – a type of jazz style with a strong beat that really makes you want to dance – had been played for a long time by the African-American community before it really became popular. My grandfather and his father had been playing swing long before it was heard on the radio. When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, many Americans were out of jobs and money. So of course they needed something to 33 ______ them up.

When people heard swing music, they forgot about their problems. The music was just so uplifting; it 34 ______ them of all the good times they had had. So big bands, like the one led by Duke Ellington, started to play at famous ballrooms and theaters all across the United States and even Europe,” her mom explained.

“And so that’s when your grandpa was around?” Jessica asked. She was so excited to learn that she had a connection to this music.

“Yes,” her mother nodded her head in 35 ______.

“He loved to go dancing and never missed a music party. 36 ______, he saw the famous Duke Ellington and his band play live once!” she replied.

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A visit

Early the next afternoon, Peter dropped by for a visit. “It’s hot in here,” he said, taking 30 ______ his wet coat and throwing it over the back of a chair. His hair was wet, his face flushed.

“Don’t go outside, whatever you do,” he said. “It’s terrible outside. By the way, you haven’t 31 ______ Dave, have you?”

I ran a hand through my hair. It was a Friday afternoon, no class and I hadn’t been out of my room all day. I worked hard translating a Greek poem.