Sentence:  Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp , the packing away of my camp uniforms , the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had <WSD>grown</WSD> most to love in the world . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become