For my son, each birthday 1 ) …. by complicated feelings, a reminder of the milestones he has not met and may never meet.

I forgot it was so soon. I forgot how old 2) he…. I forgot to mention it to him. I had yet to get him anything.

Some weeks ago, my son, Finn, was turning 13, an age that 3) … the onset of puberty and the distancing of childhood, a real milestone. Anne Frank was 13 when she 4) … her diary.

Joan of Arc 5) …..to be 13

when she started 6) voices. When a Jewish boy is 13, he becomes accountable for his actions.

At 13, Finn is still soft and subdued, quite unlike the typical boys his age. He … speak, so his wanting is expressed nonverbally.

If pointing doesn’t work he will stomp his foot. If he wants something badly enough — to leave the house, or to see his sitter — his cheeks 8) ….. His eyes will widen. He may make a noise of frustration and stomp again.

ACCOMPANY

BE

MARK

RECEIVE

BELIEVE

HEARING

CAN

FLUSH

1. HAS BEEN ACCOMPANIED
2. WOULD BE
3. MARKS
4. RECEIVED
5. WAS BELIEVED
6. HEARING
7. CANNOT
8. WILL FLUSH

Alysia Abbott, the author of “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father,” leads the Memoir Incubator program at GrubStreet in Boston.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/well/family/autism-birthdays.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

Every day, for the past 14 years, Bruce Bennett has received packages

1) … with CDs. Sometimes a few at a time and sometimes in packs of

2) …, shiny old discs arrive at his CD Recycling Center of America in Salem, N.H., a 300-foot blue trailer tucked behind a commercial strip,

3) … to the CD afterlife.

The CD 4) … process requires Mr. Bennett, 55, to store a truckload, or approximately 44,000 pounds, of CDs in a warehouse before the discs can be granulated into raw polycarbonate plastic, 5) …. in a white and clear powdery material that glints and resembles large snowflake crystals stuck together.

The material, which 6) …. one million years to decompose in a landfill, can eventually be used to mold durable items for cars, home building materials and eyeglasses.

But that’s assuming anybody buys the raw material.

The polycarbonate granules used to be sold mostly to China, where the United States sent the bulk of its recycling until 2018 before China restricted imports of mixed paper and 7) … plastic. The price that China 7) was willing to pay per pound of granulated polycarbonate began to dip in 2008, Mr. Bennett said, and by 2011 it 8) …..

FILL

HUNDRED

ASCEND

RECYCLE

RESULT

TAKE

MUCH

PLUMMET

1. FILLED
2. HUNDREDS
3. TO ASCEND
4. RECYCLING
5. RESULTING
6. TAKES
7. MOST
8. HADPLUMMETED

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Mr. Bennett did find polycarbonate buyers in India, but now, because of lockdowns caused by the pandemic, he doesn’t break even. Still, as a self-professed lifelong 1) …..— he began to 2) …. CDs in 1988 because, as a CD 3) … , he had to learn how to properly dispose of damaged batches — Mr. Bennett is 4) … that CD recycling will catch on.“I realized that I know how to recycle this,” Mr. Bennett said in an interview. “But I don’t think the world knows.” Bags of CDs wait on pallets to be recycled at the CD Recycling Center Salem, N.H.A CD’s Journey CDs may seem like a relic, but when they entered consumer homes in the 1980s, they were a 5) … in information sharing. “In the early ’80s, information storage was 6) … in magnetic tape and magnetic devices,” said Kees Immink, who was one of eight engineers to create the CD in 1979. “The CD was groundbreaking.” His team had started with the goal of making a disc capable of storing music longer than Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9,” which is close to 70 minutes long. What resulted was something that could save “other digital media and essentially all software,” he recalled.

“Mechanical engineers who produced 7)… gramophones became instantly obsolete,” Mr. Immink said.

1. ENVIRONMENT
2. CYCLE
3. MANUFACTURE
4. HOPEFUL
5. REVEAL
6. MAIN
7. EXCEL

1. ENVIRONMENTALIST
2. RECYCLE
3. MANUFACTURER
4. HOPEFUL
5. REVELATION
6. MAINLY
7. EXCELLENT