1 . When I was in third grade my family moved from a house in the sticks to a house in town. My parents sold the first house _________ they bought the second, so we had about three months when we were _________. During those three months, a family friend _________ us their very small fishing cabin right next to what we called the canal. The cabin had one bedroom, a small living room, a(n) _________ kitchen, and a foyer(休息室)where my brother and I slept in a bunk bed. It was a _________ time for my parents. All of our routines were upended. But _________, I loved it.

I loved the bunk bed, where I _________ my brother was right above me, close enough for me to reach up and _________ if needed. I loved the small kitchen, where my mother would cook and I would read aloud to her. I loved that there were no other _________ anywhere nearby, so my brother had to play with me. I loved the games that we found in the cabin. I loved that as I went to sleep at night, the light from the living room and the __________ of my father watching TV were just a few feet away.

In that period of disruption, I loved the closeness that our small cabin __________ us. In our normal lives, I wouldn’t have dared to ask my brother to play with me instead of his friends. I couldn’t have __________ to share a bedroom with him. In our normal lives, I wouldn’t have been allowed to __________ late enough to hear my father watching TV.

__________ my parents found a new house and we moved into it. It was bigger than our old house and much bigger than the cabin. But I mourned the loss of the cabin and, particularly, the loss of the __________.