Nikki Christous,a young girl from London, has an abnormal connection between the arteries (动脉)and veins. It has resulted in a1abnormally. But Nikki, who's a huge makeup enthusiast, doesn't let anything or anyone2her style. She makes makeup lessons for her YouTube page3and has become a star. Through the videos, she hopes to 4others who may also have rare illnesses or5. Nikki wants to inspire anyone with a rare illnesses and show them that6lies within. Being different should not mean being 7or feeling there is no real place for you in this world and that you don't have a8role to  play.

    In her videos, she shares looks for different9like a prom (正式舞会), a birthday or just for every day. In addition to showing viewers10looks, she also records other videos that give you a(n)11at her life, such as baking lessons.

    12she does get hurtful comments from people criticizing her appearance, Nikki says that she13focuses on the good side. "I don't let them14 me. Focus on the happy things.

    15the sad things because if you focus on the negativity, you are not going to16life," she said. "Just know if you believe in yourself, really try hard and 17all the negativity in your life, you will lead a happy life.

    As if being a YouTube star wasn't18of an achievement, she is also the 19behind The Butterfly AVM Charity, a charity set up by her parents to fundraise for research into the illness. She is also helped20more than 55,525,65 British pounds for the foundation through a crowd-funding campaign.

    A town mouse and a country mouse were friends. The country mouse one day1his friend to come to visit. He wanted his friend to come and see him at his home in the 2. The town mouse came and they sat down to a 3of roots and corn. The country mouse 4the food and he asked his friend to eat more. But his friend didn't think the food was 5.

    After 6for a while, the town mouse finally said, "My 7friend, you live here no better than the ants. Now, you should just see8I live! There is plenty of nice food in my room. You must come and 9with me. I'm sure you will enjoy your 10there." The country mouse wanted to eat better food, so he11.

    When the town mouse12 town, he took the country mouse with him. He showed the visitor into his room which had a lot of nice food. The country mouse had 13seen anything like that and sat down to enjoy the food his friend 14. But right before they had15, the door opened and someone came in. The two mice 16and hid themselves in a narrow hole. After a while, when it was17again, they came out. But someone else came in, and they hid again. This was too much for the18. "Goodbye," said the country mouse, "I'm off. You have a lot of nice food to eat, I can see, but there is so much19 around you. Though I can only enjoy my simple dinner of roots and corn, I can live20in my hole. "

    When Lyndsay and Matthew took home their newborn twins a few days after Christmas 2016, they knew that baby William's days would be short. 1 he looked perfect and healthy, he had a severe heart defect, 2 in the womb.

    “It was one of the 3 days of my life when we found out that we would lose our son 4 months still left in my pregnancy, but because at that time we were able to 5 ourselves,” said Lyndsay. “My husband and I both have a strong 6 in God and through prayer, we felt God's love, peace, and 7.” She said that the love and help from family and friends have been 8 in their journey.

    One friend made a special 9. Knowing how important it was to document his short life, a family friend 10 to a Toledo photographer she followed on Facebook.

    “The days with both of our babies at home together were 11,” said Lyndsay. “We tried our best to focus on enjoying the time together and creating 12. We were able to do this and felt like God blessed us with the time to get to know our son.”

    And although Lyndsay13 hesitated to do a photo shoot, now she says she's so glad she did.

    “The photos are going to be even more important as time goes on,” said Brentlinger.“ I can14 on our time with our whole family together and remember our newborn son with the15 big eyes. His twin sister, Reagan, will be able to see the love and special 16 they shared together.”

    What 17 Brown, the photographer were the parents and the strength and love they displayed during the shoot.

    “The parents were extremely strong,” Brown said. “They 18 acted and treated both babies like nothing was wrong. So that 19 my heart watching them. We sort of lost it in the very end... Then the tears just started 20.”

    William is a gift for his twin sister, his parents and everybody. Surrounded by love, life is eternal.

    For the past two years I have been travelling and living abroad. I has become more of a feeling than a place.1 feel at home 2 I am with my family in London, but I 3 feel at home in Italy with friends I 4 , or in Spain with my partner. Home is no longer a picture of a 5 with a front door and some windows. It is more 6 than that.

    This is one of the reasons that 7 the New Year has become very important for me. New Year's Eve has become my time to reconnect with the 8 that make me feel at home. Every year we try to reunite, no matter where the world has 9 us, and remember a time when we knew each other so 10 that we felt like a family. It is a moment to reconnect and get to 11 each other again. Last year, we 12 to a cottage( 舍)in Ireland 13 we had no Internet and no neighbours.

    In the middle of the 14, away from our big and constantly changing lives, we were able to become like a little 15 again.

    This year, we went to Barcelona. It was a very big change. We were 16 by culture and joy. There were bars and parties. It was 17 , but one thing stayed much the same—I felt at home and we felt like a family18.

    Two hours into 2019, I realized that I was 19 enough to be with people who didn't mind and just wanted to 20 the first day of the New Year with me even if it was on a sofa watching TV!

    The Adams family home has been taken over by origami (折纸)in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to1hough. Those paper creations are2clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay3

    In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from4of clean water and that girls of their age couldn't go to school5they were fetching water all day for their families. They6to do something.

    "So we took something that we loved doing - folding origami, with the7goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia," explains Katherine.8, they ended up selling out and raising far more than that to fully9the cost of the well.

    Katherine, now 13, adds, "It just snowballed,10the founding of the project Paper for Water." In eight years, this project has11more than 2 million for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries.

    Now, the rest of the Adams family are also12. But at the heart of it, beneath countless paper decorations sit two bold sisters hoping to13other girls and boys. "Kids have an incredible ability to make a real14to the world if they're just given the chance," Isabelle says, "and if people15them in their efforts."

Ten years ago I adopted my dog Rudy from a shelter just days before they were going to euthanize (使安乐死) him. We've had a special1 ever since.

    I've found his  2 really meaningful. Every night I get in my bed and he gets in his doggy bed right next to mine. But a year ago suddenly Rudy 3 . Every night when I got in bed he'd jump up on my  4 and start licking (舔) my face. I'd get  5 and make him get off but the next night he'd do it again.

    I was considering taking him to obedience (驯服) school when I suddenly 6 that he was licking the same spot on my jaw over and over again. I  7  my jaw and it seemed okay but it was so  8 for my dog that I decided to just trust him. I made an appointment with the  9 and felt silly telling her why I came in but she agreed to do some  10 . It turns out I had a tumor (肿瘤) in my jaw. It couldn't be felt from the  11 but somehow Rudy knew it was there. I'm doing much 12 now but the doctors said if I'd  13 until the tumor was big enough to be felt, it's likely I would have  14 . I saved my dog's life and now he's  15 mine!