The version of the sentence that is most concise is the last one - We had all gathered to celebrate the various recent events in our lives.
The other sentences just state so many words with the same meaning.
Answer:
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My best Christmas was when WE<em> </em><u><em>visited</em></u> family, <em><u>went</u></em> sledding, and <em><u>ate</u></em> food.
Explanation:
I chose to read a book that sounded really
interesting to me. I found out about it last year during one of the Book
Festivals. The book is called Zlatas Diary, and it is written by Zlata
Filipović. It is from the Memoir/Autobiography genre. This is a diary
that was published, and the author became really famous because of all
the things that she had to go through, and because of her experiences.
She had many journalists coming to interview her. The setting is in
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war in 1901 through 1903.
They ask the priest to sprinkle holy water on the grave so the old man’s spirit will make it rain.
When the priest is asked to home to the burial with the holy water, the priest initially refuses since the family did not ask him to say the funeral rites or have Mass. Leon, who comes to get the priest says, "we just want him to have plenty of water." Then the last line of the story says, "he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water; now the old man could send them big thunderclouds for sure." From this we can infer that the people expect Teofilo to make it rain now that he has died. This also connects with the title of the story.
