单项选择题

When my mother’s health was failing, I was the "bad" sister who lived far away and wasn’t
involved. My sister helped my parents. She never asked me to do anything, and I didn’t __62__. I was widowed, raising kids and working, but that wasn’t really __63__ I kept to weekly calls and short. infrequent visits. I was __64__ in my adolescent role as the aloof (超脱的) achiever, defending myself __65__ my judgmental mother and other family craziness. As always, I turned a deaf ear to my sister’s __66__ about my not being around more and f didn’t hear her rising desperation. It wasn’t until my mom’s __67__, watching my dad and sister __68__ to each other and weep, that I got a __69__ of their long painful experience - and how badly I’d behaved.
My sister was so furious, she __70__ spoke to me during my father’s last years. To be honest, I’m not a terrible person. So how did I get it so __71__
We hear a lot about the __72__ of taking care of our graying population. But the big story beneath the surface is the psychological crisis among middle-aged siblings (兄弟姐妹) who are fighting __73__ issues involving their aging parents. According to a new survey, an __74__ 43.5 million adults in the US are looking __75__ an older relative or friend. Of these, 43% said they did not feel they had a __76__ in this role. And although 7 in 10 said another unpaid caregiver had provided help in the past year, only 1 in 10 said the burden was __77__ equally.
As siblings who are often separated __78__ and emotionally, we are having to come
together to decide such __79__ issues as where Mom and Dad should live and where they should be __80__ "It’s like being put down with your siblings in the center of a nuclear reactor and being told, 4 Figure it __81__.’" says University of Colorado psychologist Sara Honn Qualls.

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