IN: Today is my 24th birthday , and it is also my first birthday without my father . I did n't really want to celebrate it at all , but my sisters and my mother convinced me that I should . It is also my brother in laws birthday as well .
Why would my mother and sisters convince me that I should still celebrate my birthday even though I did not want to ?

OUT: They knew my father would want me to still celebrate

IN: This will be interesting . Immediately following that , my other grandparents will be in town for 10 days or so . a week or two later , we 're all going out to my cousin 's wedding .
What is in store for the narrator in the coming days ?

OUT: The narrator is going to spend time with their family .

IN: Clarke writes about how she first encountered Mark Salter in 1988 at the Republican Convention . She mistakenly thought he was the bodyguard for Jeane Kirkpatrick , the former ambassador to the United Nations . Instead he handled communications and wrote for her . Through a chance meeting after the convention , she met him in New Orleans and told him to send writing samples because McCain needed a writer .
Why would Mark Salter be so offended ?

OUT:
Someone mistook him for someone else .