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         When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant 1 Miller King, who was the best 2 at our school.

         Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for 3.

         Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from 4. He looked very5, but he didn^'t cry.

        That season, Iall of Miller's records while he 7 the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, 8 I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller's 9.

        One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller 10 going over a fence—which wasn't 11 to climb if you had both arms. I'm sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept 12 from. But even that challenge he accepted. I 13 him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally 14 on the other side, he said to me,＂You know, I didn't tell you this during the season, but you did 15.Thank you for filling in for 16.＂

        His words freed me from my bad 17. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was 18 ahead of me. I was right to have 19 him. From that day on, I grew 20 and a little more real.

    A 16-year-old in foster care has finally found a home. His adoption caseworker (社会工作者), who has known him since he was 7, will become his adoptive mother this month.

    In October 2013, Davion Only spoke in front of a church congregation (会众) in St. Petersburg, Florida, and made an 1 for adoption. He had recently learned that his 2  mother, who'd been in jail since Only was born, had died. He had spent years bouncing between foster homes. “My name is Davion and I've been in foster care since I was born,” he said. “I know God hasn't given up on me, so I'm not giving up either.”

    The 3  plea (恳求) went viral, and Only's foster agency 4  calls from more than 10,000 people, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Only  5  traveling to Ohio to live with a minister's family. But after Only got into a physical  6  with one of his older would-be siblings (兄弟姐妹), the minister and his wife changed their minds.

    Back in Florida, Only passed through four different  7  homes over the next year, until he called Connie Going, his adoption caseworker, to make a special  8 .

    Only had known Going for nearly ten years, and had asked every year if she would adopt him but she always  9 . “I always believed there was a better family than us out there,” Going tells Yahoo Parenting. “He  10  so much in this world.”

    But this past July, when Only called and asked again if she might adopt him, Going says something felt  11 . “In adoption there is a ‘claiming moment,' when you know someone is your child. When he called me to ask, in that moment, I just knew,” she says. “When he asked me, my heart felt this  12  and I just knew he was my son.”

    So Going, 52, invited Only to start spending time  13  the rest of her family — the other four children who she also adopted out of foster care.  14 , Going managed to rent a bigger home, got a lawyer, and started adoption  15  .

    Only will officially join Going's family on April 22, when the adoption  16 . “Today, I am feeling blessed and honored by being chosen to be the parent to all my children,” she says. “I work every day on being the best parent I can to them, to be patient and creative so that I can  17  all their needs.”

    A spokesperson for Eckerd, Only's foster agency, told the Tampa Bay Times they were 18  with the new development. “We are truly thrilled that Davion has been united with his forever family.“

    While Going is waiting for the newest  19  to her family to become official in the eyes of the law, she says Only is already her child. “I want him to know he is  20  loved for who he is, the way he is,” she says. “The changes he chooses to make in his life, and the choices, are his to make. As a family we will be there through it all, the good and the bad for our lifetime. He is home.”

    Sanford Greenberg was once a lucky guy. A poor kid from Buffalo, New York, he was 1 into Columbia University on a full scholarship and had a great 2, Arthur Garfunkel. But in his third year of college, Greenberg's 3changed—he was going blind. He was so 4 that he refused to see anyone from college. But Garfunkel went up to Buffalo, 5 Greenberg to go back to Columbia and offered to be his 6.

    Greenberg returned to campus. Garfunkel and two other roommates read textbooks to him, taking time out form their own studies, and Greenberg 7 scoring straight A's. 8, he was afraid of getting around alone and relied on his friends to help him.

    Then, one afternoon, Greenberg and Garfunkel went to Midtown Manhattan. When it was time for Greenberg to 9, Garfunkel said he had an appointment and couldn't 10 him. Greenberg panicked. They argued, and Garfunkel walked off, leaving Greenberg 11in Grand Central Terminal. Greenberg stumbled (跌跌撞撞地走)through the rush-hour crowd. He 12 a shuttle train west to Times Square, then changed to an uptown train. Four miles later, he 13at the Columbia University stop. At the university's gate, someone 14him.

    “Oops, excuse me, sir” Greenberg 15the voice. It was Garfunkel's. Greenberg's first 16was anger, but in the next second, he realized what he had just 17 -- and realized, too, who had made it possible. “It was one of the most brilliant 18” Greenberg says. “Arthur had been with me the whole way.”

    After graduation, Greenberg got his doctor's degree from Harvard and became a successful inventor and businessman. 19blind, Greenberg sees everything. “You are talking,” he always says, “to the20 man in the world.”

    The stage lights dimmed, and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly1. It seems that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep2as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my3, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

    After a decade of learning this art form, I had4been considered ready to take on the most difficult act. The test is the most important event in a dancer's life as it pays5to all the factors in one's life that6the dance form: one's culture and family.

    The performance is undertaken only by the most7and determined students. It is a difficult process that requires much8. For more than six months, I spent two to three hours every day9these dances. Many times, I 10myself to my physical and mental breaking point, but still I would not stop. I could not give up. There was always so much more to do and so much more to 11.

    I12a lot about myself in those tiring hours. I learned that I was far too 13to give up, and I was too proud to prove myself 14after I had set an unrealistic goal. Even with physical pain and mental15, I forced myself to meet my 16. Even when I was at the end of my17, there was always something driving me on, forcing me not to give up.

    Fortunately, I made it. What I had done18the success. It was in those hours that I learned what a dancer19is. Those time was evidence that I could20something I set out to do.

    I recently asked for a raise from a friend and she agreed.

    I met her at a playground, and told her I 1 another child in addition to my two during the week, and that I wanted to 2 it. She was actually looking for low-key care like that for her 2-year-old and the following week she 3. I threw out a 4 price. I don't know why really, I just tend to do that sort of thing.

    After weeks passed, I 5 it wasn't making much sense for me 6 to continue and I had to address it. In a text I told her I needed to up the price a bit. I 7 that the number we 8 agreed on wasn't covering my time and expenses. I threw out the amount I thought was 9 and fair, and do you know what I said next?

    Thank you.

    "Thank you for letting me feel10enough to be honest."

    What I really wanted to say was sorry. My11 was the exact thing I wanted to 12 for, but I didn't.

    Normally I would have but I consciously 13 "sorry" with "thank you". This 14 made me feel so much more 15. At first I was surprised that word choice could have so much 16 over my feelings, but then it occurred to me that it's not just my 17 that changed, but the actions I take before speaking them. 18 trying to obtain bits of 19 in apologies, I give them to myself. I no longer wait to be 20 when I've done nothing wrong and I feel a greater sense of confidence and worth. I've found the more I honor myself, the more others honor me, too.

    While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job 1 at a school about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of 2 and wanting to do something 3 I applied (申请), 4 as I did so, that without a degree and with no 5 of teaching my chances of getting the job were 6.

    However, three days later, a letter arrived, calling me to Croydon for a meeting with the headmaster. It proved to be a 7 journey: a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at 8 a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. It was clearly the 9 himself that 10 the door. He was short and round.

    "The school," he said, "is made up of one 11 of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen." I should have to teach all the subjects except art, 12 he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into 13 groups and teach them in turn at three different 14, and I was 15 at the thought of teaching maths—a subject at which I wasn't very 16 at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of 17 to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be 18 themselves at that time.

    Before I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his 19. "Now" he said, you'd better meet my wife. She is the one who really 20 this school.