distractors: could should might
sentence: My mother , born in the late 1920s,  received  no education.Her mother, whom she loved dearly , died when she was 12 years old.Her father remarried,  but  he stepmother was  cruel  to her.As a result, my mother was always kept busy doing ail kinds of household  affairs  ,varying from feeding scores of tame birds to  looking after  her stepbrothers "Never say die" she  [MASK]  say to herself.