The hospital room was unusually quiet. It was a relief to spend some time alone, just the three of us-my husband, me and our daughter who was receiving treatment due to Down syndrome(唐氏综合征). “Water,” the 10-year-old said. Her dad ________ her a glass. Hannah ________ her head and flapped(扇动) her arms.

Communication wasn’t always ________ for Hannah, and she used body language to get her ________ across. I was afraid her flapping arms were a ________ of frustration(懊丧), but Hannah was in good spirits. The nurse came in to check Hannah and saw no cause for ________. Still, we could see that she had something ________ to say. This time we couldn’t ________ what it was.

Shortly afterwards we took Hannah home. A few weeks after the treatment, I took Hannah into the bathroom to wash her hair. “Water!” Hannah said. “That’s right.” I replied, reaching to turn on the tap. Hannah pointed to the wall behind me. I glanced up at the framed artwork hanging on the wall. The print ________ a little girl angel wading(淌水) in a calm lake. The tips of her wings took a dip, too. “Yes, there’s water in that picture, too,” I said. Hannah nodded but she wasn’t ________. She pointed to her arms

I replayed her ________ in my mind. She flapped her arms... as if she were flying? ________. I turned my head to look at the picture behind me. The angel, her wings dipping into the water...

“Wait, Hannah, are you ________ to tell me about an angel? Like the one in the water?” Hannah’s face lit up. She’d found the word she was looking for. She flapped her arms as she’d done at the ________. Then she held up two fingers. “Angels were around your hospital room? Two angels?” Hannah nodded ________, looking at me, one of her guardian angels.

A few years after Dad died, my 82-year-old mom moved away from the family farm near Almonte into her first apartment, which meant ________ for her to go for groceries. We were also ________ that she was living alone and hoped this ________ would really widen her social ________.

As she and I ________ her belongings, Mom shared with me all kinds of ________ about her and my father’s life together. Then we drove to town, ________ the unwanted items at Almonte’s secondhand store, where they could be ________ and the money would go to charity.

A local gentleman, who had ________ one of Mom’s old suitcases, found a black-and-white negative (底片) in an envelope, with the word “Daddy” ________ in pencil on the front. Knowing that this film certainly ________ something to someone, he took it to the Almonte Gazette, attempting to find its rightful ________ through the paper.

A week later, a big photo of my father appeared in our local paper, with a story to ________ it. Readers responded immediately; they ________ “Daddy” well — it was their uncle, brother-in-law, neighbor, friend, favorite bus driver…

So Mom and I went to the Gazette right away to ________ our film. We thanked the staff and also called the       _____ to express our heart-felt gratitude for ________ Mom, Daddy and me.

What a(n) ________ act! It meant the world to us. Mom eventually moved into a nursing home. She passed away in November, 2018, at 98, and until then ________ a day went by that she did not look at, in her words, “that famous ________ of Daddy,” on her bedside table.

The next day would be Christmas. Jim was shopping for a gift for his wife Della. With an income of twenty dollars per week, life was really _________ for the couple, but Jim wanted to buy a perfect gift for Della. He thought of the beautiful set of _________ Della had wanted for so long in one of the shop windows on Broadway. Tomorrow, Jim decided, he was going to make Della’s dream come true.

Jim and Della _________ two things they were both proud of. One was Jim’s gold watch, and the other was Della’s beautiful _________. Jim looked at the gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. _________, Jim knew what he had to do: he would sell his watch.

That afternoon, Jim _________ the watch, went to the shop for the combs (发插) and returned home with a package in his pocket. He was sure that they would be the most wonderful gift for Della. He was _________ about what Della was going to think when she saw the gift the next day.

The door opened and Della walked in. Jim looked at her with a puzzled _________. “Jim,” Della cried, “don’t look at me that way. I sold my hair to buy you a watch chain. Give me your watch. Let me see how it looks on it.”

Jim smiled. “Della,” he said, “I sold my watch to buy you a gift.” Jim _________ the package from his pocket and __________ it on the table. Della opened it. There lay the set of combs that she had always wanted. Now they were hers, but her hair was gone.