Choose the alternative that fills in correctly and respectively the blanks in the sentences below with the correct verb tense and form.

“When I _____________ (meet)¹ Serge, it ____________ (be)² love at first sight for me – I absolutely adored him, he was this wonderful mad, extrovert Russian Jew who _____________ (spend)³ half of World War II up a tree, according to him. I _____________ (think)⁴ he actually spent a couple of nights up a tree, although he’d worn the yellow star for years in occupied France. For a project, I met Hitler’s architect Albert Speer at his Heidelberg eyrie in 1971, and he asked if Jane and Serge would sign a copy of Je t’aime] for him. Serge did so, probably relishing the irony, and when he made his Rock Around The Bunker album a few years later [featuring lyrics about Nazi Germany], he gave me a copy _______________ (send)⁵ to Speer. His parents had arrived in Paris after _____________ (flee)⁶ the 1917 Russian Revolution, and his father – who was a brilliant pianist – had to perform in casinos.”