You're welcome!Below isa piece oftext from the novelnamedFlippedthat wroteby Wendelin Van Draanen.What confuses me is,What does this mean?:
I about spilled the trash all over the porch.
Here, about means almost: I almost spilled the trash.
“What are you still doing here?” I asked her.
I want to know why she has not left.
“I…I don't know. I was just … thinking.”
She can't explain why she is still there.
“About what?” I was desperate. I needed a distraction.
I want something to take her attention away from the trash.
Some way around her with this garbage before she noticed what was sitting right there on top.
I don't want her to see what is in the trash.
Some way around her with this garbage
I want to carry the trash around her.
Could anybody explain it to me or give me sentences with the same meaning?
Thanksin advance!

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