My dad and I were enemies. And I was not the only one in the family that made him 1. When he and mom argued, they would make the house a 2 place. They would 3 for hours over the stupidest things.

    My brother and I would clearly get out of their 4, trying to keep their yelling at a distance. Often we'd 5 up in the backyard with the cats which were afraid that dad might 6 them.

    My mom was the 7 person, who was kind, and easily gave you 8. It wasn't that hard to side with her against dad. The 9 didn't change until I was 18 and had a job. My dad was so much older than mom and had become weak 10 could still act up. I was so hating him that I planned for an 11! After one year, I told mom we were all, 12, going to get free of dad. I got her to agree to 13 with us.

    Nobody ever actually said to my dad, “You can't 14,” but it was understood. He stayed behind, alone in the house. From that time on, he seemed to age 15 into a fearful and lonely old man.

    Two weeks later, my dad was hit by a car. In the 16, for the first time, I felt sad and guilty that he was badly hurt and in 17. I had been so angry and so busy 18 everything for my mom, my brother and me but left out the person who needed 19 most. In fact, some people simply don't know how to be their best selves. If nobody 20 to help them get free, there's no way for them to change.

    At the age of 14, Harvey Bay teenager Mark Farrell took a dive into a swimming pool that would 1 his life forever.

    “I jumped into the pool and broke my 2,” he says. It's a very 3 story because I jumped into the deep end, not the shallow end where most spinal (脊柱的)4 occur.”

    Mark has been in a wheelchair ever since and now, at 27, is very matter of fact about any 5 life might throw at him. In fact, he finds it 6 to name any challenge at all. “I just live my life and 7 it day by day,” he says.

    For the past few years, Mark has 8 with the Spinal Education Awareness Team (SEAT), telling his 9to young people in the Harvey Bay region. He also works as a whale 10, taking photos for various publications and calendars. “If I can 11 one kid's life, it makes every single 12I do worthwhile,” he says.

    The aim of the SEAT program is to 13 students to prevent spinal injuries and help them to 14 understand the challenges and feeling of the people who 15 with a spinal injury.

    Mark discusses the importance of checking the 16 of water before diving in and being more 17 in general. He has told thousands of school students his story over the years and says that if his 18 can prevent one spinal injury in a young person, he's 19. Mark's contribution to preventing spinal injuries was 20 in 2017, when he was named Young Australian of the Year.

    My friend and I were at a restaurant in Berkeley for an evening fast food. All of a sudden we decided to do a small act of 1 —to use the smile card to. 2 someone's day.

    Being at a restaurant, we intended to pay for someone else anonymously(匿名)and see what 3. We got all excited with the 4 and set about doing that.

    We looked around for which table we should pay for, and then 5 a table—it seemed like an immigrant family with a few children, 6 their meals at that time. I could sense a family 7 in them and that they were having a nice time together. We called on our waitress to 8 the idea to her.

    As soon as we told her we wanted to pay for another table and showed her the 9, she got super thrilled! We told her about it and made sure she knew we wanted to be anonymous, which made us further 10. After a while, she came back and told us the waitress for that table was 11 to tears when hearing about our idea.

    Soon after, we left, feeling delighted and grateful to get all opportunity to 12 smiles. It is hard to explain how it felt in the moment, but it 13 felt special, not because I was “helping” someone, but because I felt 14 to people I didn't even know—the waitresses and the family. It also, in some form, melted me to see how people 15 to generosity, which has become so 16 in today's commercial lifestyle. I felt something inside me 17.  

    I don't know what happened next, how the family felt and 18 or how the waitresses 19 the situation, but I am sure it brought a few 20 to a few people including myself.

    When I was 7 months pregnant with my daughter, I witnessed a car accident. Someone and I1to get the elderly lady who2the accident out of the car. It was during the summer months and I was one of the few3staff on. I stayed with her4the ambulance came but I couldn't travel with her as there was no one else in my department to5the class.

    My mother-in-law,6years later, was collecting donations about a 10-minute walk from where the7occurred. She left calling cards saying she would be back to houses where no one was in. When she8to a house an elderly lady was really9of talking to her. She questioned my mother-in-law and asked if she had any10called Rose-Marie.

    The lady had made a11with my surname (姓) she had remembered from all those years ago and my mother-in-law' surname. The lady12the story to my mother-in-law and told her of my13. She also said she had tried to14me down and even put a notice in the petrol station nearby asking anyone who15me to get in touch with her! She had also been16about me as I was pregnant.

My mother-in-law was17to tell her my daughter was healthy and 10 years old. It is a really beautiful kindness to me to18remember me after all that time and to even remember my19. Her kindness touched me more than20could possibly touch her.

    Our teachers tried teaching us about death during nursing training. As a student nurse, I knew I would see death in my1. I had no idea of the2it would have on me,3.

    The first person I saw die was an elderly man, John, who had been4for weeks. His heart was5and the health－care team was keeping him comfortable and6his symptoms. He had stopped speaking days before but was still awake at times, and his7when we spoke to him was beautiful.

    When I came on to the8one morning, the night staff said he had deteriorated (恶化) overnight and had9left to leave. A trained nurse and I gave him a bed bath, shaved him and changed his sheets. For the next six hours I10his hand and talked to him. The doctor came in regularly and asked if he needed more pain relief but he seemed11most of the time. He only12opened his eyes to smile at me. Early in the afternoon the nurse came back in and we washed his face and13his hair. As she was just about to leave the room, she stroked his hair and said:" Oh John, just14." Minutes later, he did.

    It has been 20 years since John's death. I have seen15deaths in my time nursing. I have seen staff go far beyond the16of their jobs to17that a patient has as good a death as possible. I remember some of the other faces, but none is quite as18as John's. He, and the professionals who were19him, taught me that it20how we treat those who are dying.

    It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central lowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting, Ehlers 1about the small dog he had seen 2 alongside the road. He had 3 to coax（哄）the dog to him but, frightened, it had 4.

    Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that 5 dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove 6. After a long and careful 7. Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving 8 away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with 9. It just started licking（舔）Ehlers' face.

    A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one 10 as lost in the local paper. The ad had a 11 number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers 12 the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had 13 their dog.

    Jeff had 14 in lowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched 15 for Rosie in the next four days.

    Ehlers returned to Minnesotan, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. “It's good to know there's still someone out there who  16 enough to go to that kind of 17," says Lisa of Ehlers' rescue 18.

    I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as  19 to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. “If it had been my dog, I'd hope that somebody would be 20 to go that extra mile.”