distractors: hopeful excited disappointed
sentence: I didn't share my burden with anyone.I had seen how people reacted to AIDS.Kids  laughed at  classmates who had parents with the disease.And even adults could be cruel.When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was  too  weak to feed himself.I had known that he was going to die,  but  after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days.Sad and  [MASK]  , I  called  a woman at the non-profit National AIDS Support.That day, she  kept  me on the phone for hours.I was so lucky to find someone who cared.She saved my life.