Some started to run. A woman sobbed beside me, her husband dragging her along by the arm. Families begged for a _______ in vehicles(车辆) with no space, and cried when they were _______ .

Finally _______ it to the slightly higher ground of the evacuation(撤离、疏散) zone, it took me a few minutes to find Lauren among the crowds. Holding me and crying, she told me of her own walk twenty minutes _______ . Somehow, she had _______ to get back inside the airport before it was locked down, throwing our bags onto a trolley(手推车) and pushing it all the way to where we stood.

She was extremely tired, physically and emotionally, _______ finally calmed down enough to ask a simple question: “what happens now?”

I had no idea. Rumors(谣言) were flying around the crowd; _______ being spread far and wide. A six-meter tsunami was _______ our way. We were safe? No, we weren’t. People would be trapped in their hotels for days.

In short, nobody had a clue. The authorities(官方) were doing their best, _______ water-and later, food —to everyone, but they couldn’t provide the one thing people were most ________ for: information.

Finally, an announcement was made that the ________ had passed, and if there were no further quakes, we would be free to go in two hours. The airport would not reopen that ________ and buses would turn up at some point to take us to Phuket Town.

Suddenly, another announcement was made. Four hours after it closed, the airport was going to reopen in half an hour and our flights would ________ at some point after that. Some of the airport staff got into minivans(小型货车) and headed away.

Happy to be alive, we almost ________ back through security and into the terminal(航站楼). We found a slightly comfortable piece of floor, and prepared to wait it out.

Afterword: After I started queuing at 4 am, we were ________ enough to get on the first flight to Chiang Mai the next morning.

I live in a house with a beautiful view of hills and our little town. When I ________ here 24 years ago the man next door was building a ________ in his backyard and I could ________ him from my window.

He was building it alone. I enjoyed watching the ________ of the boat and I got to know my ________ , Charles. It turned out this was his ________ boat; he had built a slightly smaller wooden sailboat but had sold it before ever sailing it himself. It was a beautiful boat but Charles ________ to get on with the bigger steel boat.

Charles did things very carefully and would not be ________ to finish any part of the boat. He handcrafted (手工制造) it, piece by piece. ________, with the passing years, Charles’s ________ began to worsen. And work on the boat progressed even slowly. Then he was in a bad car accident which left him with a sore (疼痛的) back and that ________ him even more. Although we didn’t ________ it, I know he reached a point at which he realized he would never be able to ________ the boat. He had been working on it almost daily for 25 years but he couldn’t ________.

Fortunately, Charles was able to ________ the boat and the other day I looked out the window and the big boat was ________. I haven’t talked to Charles since the boat was taken away. It was a great ________ to move it and I saw Charles out there helping as he watched his ________, one that consumed so much of his life, head off to its new owner. I’m sure he is both relieved that the boat is no longer in the yard to make him ________ that he couldn’t complete it and ________ that a huge part of his life is no longer there.

What are the foods that you can only taste in memories? Your mother's biscuits? The pies you made as a child? And what are the recipes that help you_______your memories?

This morning, for the first time in over a year, I made Dutch Babies, a kind of pancake. I’m a poor cook who's always _______to pull anything out of the oven that isn't burnt. But_______, I get lucky.

Making Dutch Babies brings to my mind some of the _______memories of my life. I’ve made Dutch Babies many times for sleepovers and_______. They were always a hit,_______ I burned them.

After my kids grew up, I didn't cook much for years, except for holidays or other_______occasions. When we had a family_______, I'd make Dutch Babies for breakfast.

I can’t recall the last time I made Dutch Babies, before today. I know it was_______a year, before life was________for COVID-19, and we stopped having guests.

So why did I make them this________for only my husband and me? It's been a(n)       ________year for all of us, filled with things we couldn't do. I was________to celebrate being alive.

Good food can feed a hungry crowd. But if it's made with love and ________. it can fill a(n)________with the hope of better days to come. So, add your own memories.