distractors: sad puzzled curious
sentence: AIDS wasn't  something  we talked about in my country when I was growing up.From then on, I knew that this would be a family  secret  .My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone.For a while, he could take care of himself.But when I was 12, his condition worsened.My father's  other  children lived far away, so it  fell  to me to look after him.We couldn't afford all the necessary medication for him, and  because  Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't  even  buy food for dinner.I would sit  in class  feeling completely  [MASK]  , the teacher's words muffled as I tried to figure out  how  I was going to manage.