distractors: hooked dependent hard
sentence: "Hearing my mum's words,I shut up my mouth.I had been so  [MASK]  on myself.I hadn't thought about  what  Steve was going through.That dog was his baby.He'd had her for longer than he'd had us--and he had to make the decision to  end  her life,and then kept in silence for an entire  week  .All my anger melted away,and all I felt was  regret  .