I can remember times when, like children, my brothers and I 88.______ would all point at one another when asking who was to blame89.______ for wrong deeds. Unfortunately, it usually resulted in all three of 90.______ us getting beatings. Once, however, I didn’t manage to save myself 91.______ from a beating by telling my mother I had only one good hairbrush, 92.______ as she’d broken all other ones in the beatings. She thought she had 93.______ better not to use her last hairbrush and, instead, gave me a warning. 94.______ The excuses of children are not always successfully, but 95.______ now and then there is one that it will cause a parent to forgive 96.______ them. Maybe this is because children keep thinking them up. 97.______