Four days ago, I was taking a taxi. On the way, I just had the 1 stop at a store to buy something. A woman2me to let her hitchhike(免费搭车).

    I 3and picked this woman up. I thought she was too fat; she 4 about 120 kg. But she was very sweet and kind-hearted, so I didn't5.

    She was talking to me6 while going back to her place about how she got everything for her7. So I thought to myself she must have a happy family. But nothing special 8 yet.

    I got to her apartment9she needed help getting all the things she got to her place. I just helped her out and while I was 10the stuff(物品) inside her house, I11 that her husband walked in from the back of the apartment. So she was talking to him in her12 voice.“Honey, I got you this ; Honey, I got you that.” But what I came to notice was that her husband was13. And then I looked close to how they were together and I knew for that moment I was seeing “ TRUE14.”

    They cared for each other so 15 and what they looked like was not 16 at all. I was just deeply 17 by the true love between them.

    Sometimes I think about going back to the apartment to tell them what I 18 in them and to thank them for sharing their 19with me. Even though it is for a few 20 I like the way the blind couple care about each other; it is a very happy and romantic thing.

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    I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. Money was always tight, but we had a 1 over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always 2. Not knowing we were poor, my kids(孩子们) just thought I was 3. I've always been glad about that.

    It was Christmas time, and although there wasn't 4 for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a family party. But the big 5 for the kids was the fun of Christmas 6.

    They planned weeks ahead of time, asking 7 what they wanted for Christmas. Fortunately, I had saved $120 for 8 to share by all five of us.

    The big 9 arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and 10 them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开). We had two hours to shop; then we would 11 back at the “Santa's Workshop”.

    Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, 12 my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually 13. She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies—fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn't say anything 14 we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door,15 to be angry again. This is what she told me.

     “I was looking 16 thinking of what to buy, and I 17 to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees.' One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she 18 for Christmas was a doll. So I took the card off the tree and 19 the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn't have anything.”

    I never felt so 20 as I did that day.

    The back door of the ambulance (救护车) was suddenly shut and the driver ran to the front, jumped into his seat, and started the engine. Inside were the 1parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green, the mother holding their baby daughter Ally. The little girl had 2 food stuck in her throat(喉咙) and could hardly breathe.

    The driver, Mr. White, 3 his siren (报警器) and flashing light, and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting against 4. The cars ahead of him pulled out of the way as he drove through the 5. From the back of the 6the parents were shouting at him to 7, since Ally had almost 8 breathing. In front of him he saw some traffic lights, with the red "STOP" light shining. Mr. White knew that he had no time to 9, so he drove straight past the traffic lights, looking 10 his left and right as he did so.

    Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows 11, since the car was air-conditioned(空调开放的), and he was playing his radio. He did not 12the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight 13 into the path of the ambulance.  Mr. White tried to stop his ambulance but it was too late. It hit the taxi. Everybody was shaken but no one was hurt. Mr. White looked to see 14Ally was. He was astonished to see relief (宽慰) instead of 15on the faces of the parents.

    "Look!" cried Mrs. Green. "She is 16 again."

    "It must have been the 17" said her husband. "It 18 the food out of her throat." The baby's color was turning to normal(正常的), and she was crying in a loud but healthy 19 . They were all joyful, and quite forgot about the accident, the taxi, and the lines of 20all around them.

    Stars guide the way for us in the dark. Some are 1, others are dim, but they all shine together as if they're 2 the ups and downs of life. Among them, I try to find Hazel's, the heroine of the novel The Fault in Our Stars, written by U.S. author John Green.

    Hazel is a 16-year-old girl who has cancer. In her 3 group, she wins a boy's love, who has lost a leg and he also has 4. They fight pain, fear and death together. 5 their lives are hard, Hazel has a strong will. She never 6, and even silently 7 the happiness of people around her, behind which, I believe, it is the inner spirit that makes her 8.

    Hazel isn't 9. She quarrels with her parents, like most teenagers. But most of the time, she's very 10, never letting cancer be an excuse to 11 her life. She regards cancer as a side effect of death, which everyone will 12 one day. She accepts the fact that "the world is not a wish-granting factory", so she13 every single moment in life, no matter if it's 14 or sweet.

    That's 15 I admire her. I don't experience the pain and the challenge that Hazel has faced, but 16, I come across many difficulties. When I'm in 17, I always wonder what I can do about it. If there's no more mercy I can beg for, then I try to find 18 in my heart. Hazel has taught me that we should love and appreciate life as it is, forget today's 19, and live life to its fullest. 20, tomorrow is another day.

    When I was 14 years old, I was angry and rebellious, with 1 regard for anything my parents had to say, 2if it had nothing to do with me .Like so many3, I struggled to escape from anything that didn't 4 my picture of the world. A brilliant without need of guidance kid, I refused to accept any obvious 5 of love. In fact I got 6 at the proposal of the word "love"。

    One 7 , after an extremely difficult day, I 8 into my room, shut the door loudly and fell down onto my bed heavily. As I lay down in the privacy of my 9, my hands placed under my pillow. There was an envelope and I pulled what was inside out, which read, To 10 when you're alone."

    11 I was alone, no one would know whether I read it or not. So I opened it. It said, " Mike, I know life is 12 right now, I know you are upset and I know we don't do everything right .I also know that I love you 13 and nothing you do or say will ever change that I am here for you if you ever need to talk. If you don't, that's also 14. Just know that no matter where you go or whatever you do in your life, I will always love you and be 15 that you are my son. I'm here for you and love you that will never16 love you ,Mom."

    Every night as I went to bed, I would put my hands under my  17 and remember the 18 I felt every time I got a letter. During my teen years, the letters were the calm assurance that I still could be loved 19 my anger and rudeness. Just before I fell 20 I became grateful that my mom knew what I, an angry teenager, needed.