ariella (5) rotten railings
DIFFICULTY: OOOH, THAT’S GONNA HURT
intro…Cheryl writes a letter to an old friend, with whom she had once shared a house before moving to New Orleans to live with her boyfriend Tucker. The whole letter is about a young girl that lives next door, with whom Cheryl appears to have an uneasy relationship, not least because of the girl’s mother.
rotten railings
Ariella’s father drove down from Atlanta in a Mercedes SUV with his family _____ out of a Tommy Hilfiger ad and picked Ariella up and she was _____ for two weeks. The mother stopped me on the sidewalk in front of our houses and said that Ariella was excited because she was going to _____ to ride an airplane back but that she had been _____ to leave because she thought something bad was going to happen to her mother. I told her mother to call on the phone if she needed anything because my doorbell doesn’t _____. She said thanks but didn’t ask for my number. She said she didn’t think her boyfriend would be coming _____ anymore.
kick in … vložit peníze do spole?ného projektu
loan … p?j?ka
mortgage … hypotéka
railings … zde: ohrada, plot
slumlord … domácí vyko?is?ovatelského typu
SUV … sports utility vehicle, terénní auto
Tommy Hilfiger … this guy’s business
A couple of weeks ago Tucker hammered some rotten railings off the Ariella side of the house. Our slumlord was _____ to kick us out and sell the place and all four of us were thinking about getting a low-income _____ and kicking in $200 _____ for the mortgage _____ we wouldn’t have to move to a dangerous neighborhood. We were trying to fix up the place for the government inspectors.
One of the rotten railings had a message on _____ in a child’s round handwriting. You are not good neighbors, the railing _____. You never say hello. Remember when you loaned that little boy down the street from us a bike pump and he never brought the bike pump back and then one of his cousins _____ shot so you didn’t want to ask for it back _____ though you didn’t have the money for a new one? Maybe that’s _____ I feel.
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