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The first noise I would hear was the bedroom door slamming. This would be followed by my uncle tramping along the creaky wooden landing and down the stairs. Then another door would slam as he 32 ______ into the bathroom.

If anyone was still asleep, the rush of water, followed by two more slammed doors before he returned to the bedroom, served to 33 ______ them that my uncle expected his breakfast to be on the table by the time he walked into the kitchen.

He only had a wash and a shave on Saturday evenings before going to the cinema. He 34 ______ a bath four times a year on quarter-day. No one was going to accuse him of wasting his hard-earned cash on soap.

My mum would be next up, leaping out of bed moments after the first slammed door. There would be a bowl of porridge on the stove by the time my uncle came out of the bathroom. Grandma followed shortly afterwards, and would 35 ______ her daughter in the kitchen before my uncle had taken his place at the head of the table.

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.