Everyone has his own attitude____1____ getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ____2____ (weep). “I love being seven,” she cried. “I don’t want to be eight!” I held her in my arms and explained that____3____ was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and ____4____a wonderful birthday she was going to have. Eventually she was comforted. It’s always strange ____5____ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, _____6____ something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging ____7____(increasing) interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me ____8___(frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is ____9____ ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members____10____ have died before me.
