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.”

    I spent last summer volunteering at a hospital.It was a gift to 1so many amazing people and I'd like to share one of these moments.One day，I was called to a room where a(n)2woman was staying. Usually I helped with3who were ready to leave.Instead，she 4to go to the gift shop.I got a 5 ， helped her into it，and headed down to the entrance.

    When we got there，it wasn't open yet.After a 30-minute 6 ， we entered the gift shop.As I pushed her around，I could see the 7in her face as she looked at everything，happy to be out of her room.She 8some window decorations，and then saw chocolates.

    She asked me to push her in that 9 ， and then I helped her10all the different chocolate arrangements.11 she decided on three different boxes.

    She told me to write the numbers 1，2，and 3 on the boxes.She 12that the nurses were taking such good care of her，so she13chocolates for each of the three shifts of nurses.As we gave the current shift of nurses their box of chocolate，they14offered some to me before taking some themselves.

    There were15all around.Witnessing the old lady's16and getting the opportunity to spend time with someone who got so much joy from life was a17in itself. I have so many more stories，and each person made an impact on my life. I've 18that health has a way of bringing people together.19is a blessing，and being in a place where health is so 20and appreciated is unlike anything else.

    For most people, graduation day is exciting. My graduation day, 1 was not.

    I remember that weekend two years ago. My family and my friends had come to watch our class walk across that 2. But like everyone in my graduating class, I had watched the economy 3from bad to worse during my senior year. We graduates had 4 but very limited prospects(前景). Numerous applications were 5 and I knew that the next day, when my lease(租约)ended，I would no longer have a place to 6"home".

    The weeks 7 were not easy. I drove to California to find work. But what I thought would 8me a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself 9I was before.

    Days 10 like weeks, weeks like months and those many months seemed 11. The most 12 part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn't seem to make any 13.

    Then I began to write. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer – a little brighter. Something about writing gave me 14.

    I put my frustration into a children's 15, one story of which was about a(n) 16, a little fish, who, fighting in a "river", 17 to give up his dream. I kept on writing. And then one day, 18 any sort of writing degree or contracts in the writing world – just a lot of hard work and perseverance – I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things began to be in 19 soon. I was offered a second book deal. Then a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.

    The lesson of the story: Work hard, give it time and don't give up. Often our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream. All we need is the20 to push beyond the "river".

View life from new angles

    When I was 14, life felt dull and boring. The high school I went to had over a thousand students, I didn't really 1 to notice the differences between us all.

    Butth is dull view of mine 2 when my parents bought me a camera for 3Even though I didn't 4 the first thing about photography, I dived headfirst into the medium. It was after a month of playing with my new camera when I realized I had no 5 for taking pictures. My photos were clearly 6 something of importance and lacked 7. After a while, I became so 8 with my lack of artistic talent that I quit my new hobby.

    During the summer break, I suddenly decided to pick it 9 again. I went for a walk on the railroad track behind my house. Surprisingly, this walk on the tracks was 10 began my love for photography. When I was walking on the train tracks 11 a model to photograph and only 12 around me, I 13 how important it was to look at the details of things. I didn't worry about trying to create something beautiful. Instead, I just 14 photos of the beauty already around me. I quickly became 15 to color, lighting, shape, shading and everything in between. After months of studying outdoor 16, I was finally able to create beauty of my own and my work has been 17 in two small magazines.

    Slowly, my photos became something I was 18 of. They're not masterpieces, but they're important to me. And they're signs of how much my artistic abilities have 19: I went from zero artistic talent to being published.

    20 this Christmas gift from my parents, I now have a new way of looking at the world.

    One day last June, Clifford Luther served a burger and fries to a man passing through his restaurant, Old West Express, in Saskatchewan, Canada. Two  1 later, the man returned and wrote him a  2 for $500,000. "I thought, they were good burgers and fries,  3 they weren't that good," Luther told CTV News.

    The 4 man was Bob Erb of British Columbia, who won Canada's $25 million Max jackpot (累计赌注) in November 2018 and has been giving money to people  5. He's donated his6 to food banks, the old people, and some organizations, and he 7 20 people in Terrace, his hometown, to get necessary care they couldn't 8.

    While giving the burger that first afternoon, Luther 9 Erb that his 25-year-old daughter had just got cancer in Vancouver, about 1,000 miles away. "He and I had a 10 experience. One of my children had cancer, too. But he died four years ago. So, I know the 11 a parent has," says Erb. "I 12 on the way home I'd 13 him some money so he could go to see his 14."

    Two days later when Erb was on his way back to British Columbia, he 15 the restaurant for another burger, which Luther 16 to buy him because Erb had tipped him well just two days ago. Erb said "no way" and asked the restaurant owner for a 17, then wrote the check and left it on the table. "Luther looked at the check and couldn't 18 anything. He just held his arms out," Erb says.

    Erb, 60, 19 works on a building site part-time and hasn't 20 twice about the $7 million he's given to his family, friends, and society. "If you have enough to feed yourself, you help others out," he says.

    I hadn't even wanted the dog in the first place! My husband insisted I get him to 1 the dog that had died recently.

    Soon, he was "my dog", a friend and 2 companion, not asking for any more than I was willing to give a daily meal and a warm bed. But not my 3! No dogs are allowed on my bed.

    The night after my husband died, I lay there, staring into the darkness, my eyes full of4. The bed seemed so 5all by myself and I was wondering how long it takes for a good case of loneliness to 6. It was cold and moving slowly into my open hand outside the 7. It has prickly (刺痒的) hairs and just before I 8, a familiar call came from the creature that was forcing its cold, wet nose into my trembling (颤抖的) hand.

    "Oh, Shawn! What are you doing on my bed?" I put my arms around his hairy neck and 9 him.

    In the months to follow, I came to realize that this dog I hadn't 10 was a gift of love. He was a warm companion always 11 and available to go for a 12 when I needed to get out of the house. Twice, he snapped (咬) at me 13 I cried loudly and out of control, as if to tell me to be 14.

    Shawn taught me all about love, 15 and forgiveness. That crazy dog 16 me just as I am. And I've learned to help those around me who are 17 and to approach them 18, loving them just as they are. Like a dog curling up by the warm fire, I just want to be there in case I'm 19. I thank life for providing me with a(n) 20 when I felt alone, and for the comfort of a cold, wet nose.