About ten years ago, I was on a plane going west, and a young woman 1 and sat across the aisle(过道)from me．I noticed her for two reasons．She was very attractive, and she was holding a teddy bear about half her 2 ．I teased her by asking if she had a 3 for the bear．She laughed and said no．
About halfway through the flight she 4 over and told me she was going to Tucson to enter rehab(康复治疗)．She 5 to share her life story with me．She had been working as a dancer in a nightclub．That 6 had led her down a dark 7 to drugs and alcohol．As I listened to her story, I was 8 at all she had gone through．I listened to all she shared and told her I was sure she was going to 9 it．At the end of the 10 , she thanked me for listening to her．
A few years later, I got a 11 in the mail saying, “Wow, it's been five years since we met on that plane．It is 12 how you touched my life．” She went on to tell me that she had 13 to stay away from drugs, and had been working for a radio station．She felt she had achieved things she could not have 14 that
day on the plane．We agreed to set up a time to get 15 ．
When I saw her, she was 16 the attractive young woman I remembered．She told me that that little 17 we had had turned her life around．She had got on the plane 18 anything would work in her life, and my affirmationof her as a person and of her 19 had given her the last bit of 20 she needed to work through her problems．
The young woman taught me it's never too late to make a new start in life．
