I grew up in Michigan and have loved boats since I was young. I’d go out on my dad’s fishing boat, and every birthday I’d get a miniature boat with a viewing window. In Michigan, we’re _________ by lakes and I soon discovered that I loved diving and _________ skipped school days for the beach.

Three years ago, I _________ put forward an idea of running glass-bottom boat tours to an investor. It started in 2018. At present, My sons _________, manning the deck(甲板)and phones. We head out on the Cheboygan river and Lake Huron. We sail past lots of places of_________, with a historian on board explaining the history. We often scan the river to see what we can find.

One weekend this year, I met a _________ client. I thought I should find something to show him and managed to find a giant shell. Then I saw a green bottle. I swam to my boat, took a photo and then opened the bottle. It was full of water and had a paper inside. I _________ the paper and saw the date —November 1926. We were all amazed. The note_________: “Return this paper to George Morrow.” I was so excited to have found it.

We made sure to keep the paper safe. Before leaving the harbor, I posted a picture on my Facebook page and didn’t expect what followed.

The next morning, my phone _________ with messages. While I was driving home, I got a phone call from Michele Primeau. She told me she was George Morrow’s daughter. I didn’t believe her __________. She said her dad would float notes in bottles when he went on vacation or __________ them in walls when redecorating. She __________ he had posted this one on his 18th birthday.

In autumn, Michele came to visit. She brought some of his writing and the handwriting matched. She __________ I keep the message and the bottle.

It now sits in a display case in my shop. That Facebook post now has 87,000 __________. In a hard year, the discovery has brought purejoy.__________a Scuba diver(水肺潜水员), this feels like a lifetime achievement.

I went to the beach nearby for some quality time with myself. After a rough week, it was a _______ time watching families come and go for a warm weekend. Kids joyfully playing in the water, paddle boating, building sandcastles and sharing meals with their families.

After a few hours, I decided to get to my car on the other side as I was _______. As I was near the end, I noticed a girl playing by herself. She built a little sandcastle with a _______ and was now trying to fill it with water. Unfortunately, there was no _______ around to carry water. She had to go to the waves, _______ her hands and then walk back to her little castle. _______ , not much of the water was making it to the canal. But she kept trying and was still smiling and _______. I so wished I could help her out. Realizing that I had a bottle of water in my bag, I quickly took it out, and walked over to _______ it to her.

_______ at first, she smiled but ________ her head shyly, saying no. I reassured her that it would make getting the water much ________. She smiled widely and finally took it from my hands. Seeing her running over to the sea happily, equipped with a ________ in hand, I and walked off the beach with a big smile.

Although it was a tiny ________, yet I know that when the girl notices that someone needs help in her life, maybe, she would ________ this little act of kindness by a stranger. And maybe that would make her more likely to jump in and help ________ a little gentler world around her.

It was my mother who worked alone to support our family. A car was badly needed but we just couldn’t ___________ one. One day, our neighbors, the Whites, offered my mother an envelope with $500 inside. My mother wouldn’t ___________, saying she couldn’t possibly repay them.

Mr. White smiled at her ___________, “Don’t worry about ___________ the money. When times are better, just help someone else in need. “

My mother took his advice ___________. A year later, my mother brought home a poor woman who was trying to reunite with her only relative but lost all her money. My mother knew it was time to pay forward our neighbors’ ___________

My mother put the woman up for the night. Later, I saw her ___________ her purse. That’s all her money ___________ I saw a look of determination upon her face. ___________, the young mother called her aunt, which brought me to tears too.

Through the years, times continued to be ____________ for us. Despite this, again and again, I saw my mother ____________, offering help in different ways. Decades have passed since our neighbors came to us with their ____________. I try to follow their ____________, helping a little here and there. I’m hoping, in turn, my own children will get the sweet ____________ I did from my dear neighbors and mother: Acts of kindness, however small, can make a big ____________.