distractors: once even never
sentence: When I first found out,I was very sad and cried a lot.She was more like a sister to me than a  pet  .But I was also angry at my stepfather,Steve,who told us the  truth  a week after it happened.He  waited  because he didn't want to worry us,and he didn't want me to get depressed and fail my exams.I just thought she was  [MASK]  at the animals' hospital.