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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.

    An old woman having lost the use of her eyes visited a doctor to heal (治愈) them. She made this 1with him in the presence of witness (证人) that if he could 2 her blindness, he should receive a sum of money from her, but if her disease 3, she should give him 4.

    After the agreement was made, the doctor, time after time, 5 some of his medicine on her eyes, and on every 6 took something away, 7 all her property (财产) little by little. And when he had got all she had, he healed her and 8 the promised payment. The old woman, when she 9 her sight and saw 10of her goods in her house, would give him nothing. The doctor 11 his payment and as she still refused he finally decided to go to the court (法庭) and reported his case before the 12.

    The old woman, standing up in the court, 13, “This man here speaks the 14in what he says, for I did 15 to give him a sum of money if I could recover my sight, but if I continued to be blind, I was to give him nothing. Now he says that I am healed. I, 16, think that I am still blind, 17 when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house a lot of property and 18 goods, but now, though he 19 that I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a(an) 20 thing in it.”

    My little daughter, you are teaching me how selfless(无私) real love is!

    My wife called ,“How long will you be with that1?Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?” I threw the paper away and 2to the place .My daughter Sindu,sat there, tears welling up in her eyes .In front of her was a big bowl of rice.

    I 3the bowl and persuaded:“Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of the rice?”

    “OK, Dad .I will eat — not just a few mouthfuls,4 the whole lot of this. But...” Sindu hesitated .“Dad ,if I eat the whole rice ,will you give me 5I ask for?”

    “Promise.” I 6.

    After eating the rice painfully ,Sindu came to me ,her eyes wide with 7Now I became a bit 8“Dear, you shouldn't insist on9a computer or any such 10things. Dad does not have that kind of money right now.”11 “I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉),this Sunday!” was her requirement ,which was far 12my belief.

    On Monday morning ,I 13Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom. She turned around and 14.I waved back with a smile. Just then ,a boy, who just got out of a car,shouted,“Sindu, please wait for me!” What 15me was the hairless head of that boy.

    “Sir, your daughter is16indeed!” Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, “That boy is my son, who lost all his 17because of a disease .He 18to come back to school for fearing the unintentional(无意的)but 19teasing(取笑)of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing problem. But I 20imagined she would cut her lovely hair for my son!”

    I fell in love with reading when I was a child. Through reading, I developed a good 1 with my parents.

    2 as a second-generation South Korean in America, I was raised in an environment in which my parents 3 to settle in American culture. My parents were awkward, strange and different. Their limitations as immigrants(移民) 4 me; as a child, I was alone and quiet. I grew up in a family where I was 5 to speak English. I wanted to 6 the depth of the books I read but the words 7 me, like my parents. I wasn't able to change the situation 8 I was placed in, but I worked very hard. Every 9, I went to the library to check out new books. I would have 10 reading all the books by Friday afternoons. I became a better 11. Pretty soon, I was the 12 reader in the class. People would look at me in 13 as they saw me read 500-page books in only a few days. But I believe the greatest 14 was reading every night to my parents. Every evening, we 15 together in our living room, and I read to them. Slowly but surely, our 16 grew. My parents can communicate with others 17; for me, grammar quizzes became a piece of cake.

    Today I'm 18 to have Asian-American parents who were 19 enough to learn English from a young boy and wise enough to 20 their son to read at a young age.

After getting married nine years ago, I moved to an absolutely new town.1as I was, with various new things to explore, I was still lonely. I was desperate to establish2.

This could explain my enthusiastic "Count me in!" when3to participate in a half marathon. Considering my usual 3 miles, I must have been4—13 miles seemed a（n）5task.

However, the initial6gradually wore off. I found comfort in burying myself in training. Though taking it slow, one mile, and then two, I gradually made7. Mile after mile, I managed to step beside my new friends. We talked about our favorite music and8funny stories about our children. At about mile 10, the conversations9. We shared our past and hopes for our future, our fears and regrets. By the time we were running 12-mile legs, I was10that I'd made lifelong friends.

11, the day of the race arrived. At the start line, armed with my friends, I already felt like a champion. My time training had12. I managed to hold a steady pace and kept up with my13. Finally, we crossed the finish line together.

Although it started as a14of building social ties, running not only provided me with friendships, but with a skill that would15me the rest of my life.

I still remember that busy fall evening as I hurried with my eldest daughter, Athena, to get to her classroom on time for a parent-teacher night. We walked in and all 1 were on me. A few adults quickly quieted their kids' 2 . A classmate 3 my daughter, "What's wrong with your mom's 4 ?" Shocked, I started to explain my 5 , but my six-year-old daughter looked at him and said, "It's my mom's birthmark! Don't be rude!" I was extremely 6 of how she handled that situation. 

I was quite young when I realized I looked 7 . I always thought I would be alone because of birthmark, but I was lucky enough to meet my 8 who saw me for who I am inside. When I had my first daughter, I was overjoyed, but I began to 9 if the world would judge my children. 10 , my facial difference has 11 my children. My daughters get disinvited from birthday parties or certain kids are no longer friends with mine. 

When my kids were 12 , I explained how my special purple skin was rare, and we talked about acceptance and never 13 others on how they look. With time, both my daughters have become my strongest 14 : we see the world a little differently and with a kinder, more 15 heart.