I was excited to join the Empire State Ride, a 500-mile cycling adventure that raises money for cancer research. It was a weeklong ________ from New York City to Niagara Falls, and we set a ________ for the amount of money raised, but that wasn’t all that made the 2021 event ________.

I suffered from cancer back then, and had to ________ medicine to manage my pain. I carried my pill case(药盒) safe in my pocket for ________. Groups of us, all travelling at different speeds, often ________ for a meal at rest stops along the way. The weather was ________ until Friday when it became rainy and cold. After lunch, I decided to take the ________ off. I put my bike onto the bus to the campground where I was ________ to stay overnight. When I emptied my ________ to change into dry clothes, I realized my pill case was missing. I’d have to ________ the great pain on my own. What should I do?

At ________ , someone sat down next to me. “Is this yours?” he asked, ________ my pill case. “A guy ________ it at one of the rest stops. He knew I’d run into you before he did.” Out of 230________, the perfect two had teamed up for me. That had to be some kind of record.

Not long ago my daughter’s favorite shoes were cut with a knife. She cried. I took them to the shoemaker to get them ________. The young apprentice (学徒) ________ at the cuts quickly and said, “I can do ________ except replace the uppers.” The master looked at them and said, “If you trust me, I will add more cuts to both of the shoes.” I was ________ and asked why. He ________, “As if the cuts were made on purpose for special style.” I didn’t fully ________ him, but I decided to leave the shoes.

Two days later, I went to collect the shoes. At first ________ I found there were indeed more cuts on each shoe, but all of them were ________ with red thread around. The shoes looked quite ________ and more interesting than ever. I couldn’t help but speak highly of his ________.

Another time, my wife’s white skirt had an opening. My wife checked it ________ and said, “I’ll mend it myself.” Three days later, seeing the skirt again, I was shocked: the ________ had been repaired by thin and white thread and it looked like a flower. I ________, “It’s just as beautiful as a piece of art!”

“I got the ________ from that shoemaker. Patches (补丁) are supposed to be ugly, but a skillful person can make it look perfect.” replied my wife.

________ she said set me thinking: perfection is ________ to achieve in everything; patches are ________, so is human’s life, which will appear in the form of injury, disability or disease. Now that you can’t ________ the existence of them, all you can do and have to do is to ________ the wound by patches and try your best to bloom (盛开) a most beautiful flower on the wound, and that is the meaning of ________.

When most of us get a text message on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say “sorry, wrong number!” and move on. But when Dennis Williams ______a text that clearly wasn’t intended for him, he did something _______.

On March 19, Dennis got a group text ______ him that a couple he didn’t know were at the hospital, waiting for the arrival of a baby.

“Congratulations! But I think someone was mistaken,” Dennis ______. The baby was born and update texts were coming in quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa. In her ______, she didn’t seem to realize that she was sharing the baby’s photos with a complete stranger. “Well, I don’t ______ you all but I will get there to take pictures with the baby,” replied Dennis before asking which room the new ______ were in.

Much to the family’s surprise, Dennis stuck to his ______! He turned up at the hospital ______ gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her baby boy. Lindsey’s husband was totally ______ by the unexpected visit. “I don’t think we would have randomly invited him over but we ______ it and the gifts.”

Teresa ______ a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website ______by the touching words: “What a______ this young man was to our family! He was so ______ and kind to do this.” The post has since gained the attention of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184,000 shares and 61,500 likes in just three days.