That night, for the first time in months, my grandmother seemed really excited.
When I went up to see her, before going to bed. I found her pacing around the 35
room, her face flushed, her eyes shining. I was delighted. It was the first time in my
eleven-year-old life that she had presented me with a response that I could fully
understand- since I had never been on a plane[myself, it seemed the most ( 1
) thing in the world to me that the prospect of her first flight should fill her with
excitement. But I couldn't help worrying about her too, for I also knew that, unlike 40
me, she was totally ignorant about aeroplanes, and before I fell asleep that night I
made up my mind that ( 2a ) that ( 2 b ) before ( 2c ).But soon enough it
was apparent to me that it wasn't going to be easy to educate her:I could tell from
the direction of the questions she asked my father that, (a left to herself, she would
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learn nothing about aeroplanes.
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