Bad things sometimes happen to you at school or with a friend. Then who would you like to talk to? 【小题1】 You may have a lot of helpful friends in your life. However, you will always have family there for you. Through good and bad times, your family always supports and loves you.

【小题2】 David R. Wommack, a famous expert, thinks family is the tie that links us all so closely together and builds our characters, shared goals, respect and values. You just learn values like love, trust and tradition from your family.

Family is an important part of your everyday life. You can be yourself in front of your family members every day and they will accept you for who you are. 【小题3】 Even through difficult times, they will bring happiness into your life. Family is a tie that will last forever.

What are the ways that you can strengthen your family tie? You can make a family fun night each week. 【小题4】 This time together will strengthen your relationship for years to come. With a strong family tie, you can always turn to them for help and comfort.

Your family is a team. Do you remember when your family tried to help you deal with a challenge? Are there moments when your family tried to get you out of sadness? 【小题5】 You can try family dinners to improve your family tie.

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card came with it. Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.

But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother contributed to these imaginings. She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I’d delivered during the winter. As a girl of seventeen, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy whom I had met.

One month before my graduation, my father died of a heart attack. I felt so sad that I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation party.

The day before my father died, my mother and I had gone shopping for a party dress. We’d found an impressive one, but it was the wrong size. When my father died, I forgot about my dress.

But my mother didn’t. The day before the party I found that dress—in the right size—over the living room sofa. I didn’t care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother wanted me to have one. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia—lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery. My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.