完形填空。      It was a Sunday afternoon and, unlike the past few weekends, the four of us did not sit at the kitchen table
playing cards.
     That evening, my parents seated my sister Emily    1   I down in the living room because they said that they
    2   to talk to us.
     My father began slowly, as if he was    3   something back.    4   grew deep in his forehead    5   he told us
that he and my mother were getting a divorce. Tears began to    6   in my mother"s eyes. My father went over
and stared out    7   the view of the backyard.
     I always    8   of my parents as being in love,    9   they fought all the time. I saw them as    10   in every way.
I looked up to them    11   anyone else, and now they destroyed their   12  . I think the   13  came from not having
anyone to look up to.
     Now I see my father about once a week, and it is   14  . I can talk to him more    15   and I have learned to
appreciate the time I get to spend with my father.    16   my mother it has changed in a different way. I have   17   
to respect her more. She works so hard to    18   the family.
     It took lots of time for me to know that what they did was for the   19  and to    20   them for it. I now know
that parents are not perfect and also make mistakes.

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