It was a long, slow climb out of the shadows. Yet in 1970, 17 years after I left the Coast Guard, Roots was published. ____1___ I had the kind of fame and success that few writers ever experienced. The shadows had turned into dazzling 2 . For the first time I had money and open doors everywhere. The phone 3 all the time with new friends and new deals. I 4 up and moved to Los Angeles, where I could help in the 5 of the Roots TV mini-series. It was a confusing, exciting time, and in a sense, I was 6 by the light of my success. Then one day, while unpacking, I came 7 a box filled with things I had owned years before in the Village. 8 was a brown paper bag. I opened it, and there were two corroded sardine cans, a nickel, a dime and three pennies. Suddenly the past came 9 in like a tide. I could picture myself once again huddled over the typewriter in that cold, 10 , one-room apartment. And I said to myself, the things in this bag are part of my roots, too. I can’t ever forget that. A) resolve B) Inside C) across D) limelight E) worthless F) without G) rang H) flooding I) bleak J) making K) packed L) evidence M) exhausted N) blinded O) Instantly