Past simple or past perfect [ decide, live, be, take, remind, not know, cover, not see, put, write, find, start, write, be, meet, dig, read, ] in 1921, a woman (a) returned to the town where she (b) as a teenager. she was walking along the beach when she (c) a friend who she (d) for ten years. he (e) her that one day when they were seventeen, they (f) a hole in the sand, they (g) a bottle in it with some poems inside that they (h) to each other and then they (i) it up. they (j) to find the bottle. after an hour, they (k) the place and they (l) to dig. the bottle (m) still there. they (n) it out of the hole and (o) the letters they (p) to each other ten years before they (q) very embarrassed and (r) what to say.
c. met
d. had not seen
e. reminded
f. dug
g. put
h. had written
l. covered
j. decided
k. found
I. started
m. was
n. took
o. read
p. had written
q. were
r. did not know