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My wife and I had just finished the 150mile trip home from our daughter's college. It was the first time in our lives that we would __1__ for any length of time. We wondered how other people had __2__ it. Later in bed, I __3__ the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay home to keep the __4__from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to __5__ college. The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn't want to get to the city __6__. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn't say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little __7__. He finally said, "I never went to college and __8__of your brothers did. I can't say don't do this or that, because everything is __9__and I don't know what is going to come up, but I think things will __10__. When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard. " I knew that soon I would be __11__in the big town and I would be __12__the life home. Then my father__13__the Bible (圣经) that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but I must__14__it. He just said, "This can help you __15__you will let it." When I finished school I took the Bible __16__to my father. But he said he wanted me to __17__it. Now, too late, I remember. It would have been so __18__ to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn't. My father could give me only a Bible, but I don't really believe now that I gave her half as __19__as my father gave me. So the next morning I__20__up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note. "This can help you." I said, "if you will let it." | ||||
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My husband Jack hated Christmas. He didn’t hate the true meaning of ___16___, but the commercial aspects of it. Knowing he felt this ______17___, I decided one year to___18___the usual shirts, sweaters, ties and so on. I reached for something _____19__just for Jack. The idea came in an unusual way.
Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was______20______at the junior level at the school he attended and shortly before Christmas, there was a non-league match____21_____a team sponsored by a church.
These youngsters from the church, dressed in shoes so_______22_____that shoestrings seemed to be the only thing holding them together,____23______our son’s team were in their beautiful new wrestling shoes.
As the match began, I was_____24_____to see that the other team was wrestling without a helmet designed to____25_____a wrestler’s head. They clearly could not_____26_____ them. Well, our son’s team ended up defeating them and took every weight class. But as the other team ______27_____up from the mat, they walked around with a sense of pride that couldn’t admit______28______.
Jack, seated beside me, shook his head_____29_____, “I wish just one of them could have won,” he said. “They have a lot of potential, but______30_____like this could take the heart right out of them.” Jack loved_____31_____and he knew them, having coached little league football, baseball. That’s when the ____32______for his present came. That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and _____33______some wrestling helmets and shoes and sent them to the church.
On Christmas Eve, I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Jack what I had done and that this was his_______34_____from me. His smile was the_______35______ thing about Christmas that year.
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