My first and favorite hero is my dad. I still _____ times when he would stay up with me to watch those funny shows at midnight after a long day of tiring work. I felt _____ and excitement every time he came home from work with a toy in his hand, _____ but still willing to give me the world. And I also remember how my dad would go to the store and buy me a cartoon-themed cake _____ it wasn’t my birthday because he knew how much I liked to _____ myself with cake.

Our life _____ when my sister was born. She was sick. I couldn’t _____ anything except the fact that my parents were _____. My sister went through a long period of being in hospital, during which my mom was by her side the entire time. My dad took over the _____ of my mom. I did everything with him, from sleeping in his bed because I was ______ at night, going to work with him every single day to complaining to him that I was hungry every day after school. This ______ went on for years.

I didn’t really care for ______ when I was younger. I just ______ they were people with super abilities. Now, I think my dad ______ into that category. He has the ______ to make me feel happy and joyful. He makes me feel safe, warm, and loved.

“I knew when I saw you, I wanted to take you home,” my dad said to me when I visited him one Saturday. There is a deep-seated _______ of a father seeing his daughter when she was born.

My father has Alzheimer’s (老年痴呆症). He does not _______ express in words, so the sudden accuracy of his words _______ me.

Another Saturday, he _______ a photo of me and said, “She’s smart.” Did he know the _______ person, 30 years older, was sitting beside him? It does not _______. At that moment I can feel his _______.

Now I bring a spoonful of yogurt to his lips. With a _______ hand, he touches me and says, “You’re very good. Thank you.” He _______ forgets it was he that guided me in ________ a spoon to my mouth.

These words are all he can give now. But they make me understand more deeply my ________ father.

His door was always open. Drop-in ________ were welcomed with a drink. He would not hesitate to give money to a family member ________. In the community, he ________ his time to preserve the historical buildings.

Time, advice, money. There were many ways he gave.

And he gives, ________. The disease has taken much from my father. What’s left are his words. It’s difficult for him to find the right word and say it out loud. Yet he keeps going.

Nibblett was heartbroken when her baby was taken from her. She always _______she’d find him. Her husband was an American soldier. During the Vietnam War, when one had a kid half-American, half-Vietnamese, people would _______ them, especially their family. So after Nibblett gave birth to her son, her father _______took her son away and did not let her know where he took him. The baby, who’s now named Kirk Kellerhals, was _______from a Vietnamese orphanage (孤儿院) at the age of two. He was raised with the _______ that his biological parents had died during the Vietnam War. However, his biological mother had been praying (祈祷) to _______ with him. Nibblett never _______ faith in finding her long-lost son and submitted (提交) her _______ to the Family Tree DNA website, in the _______ of him doing the same. Luckily, Kirk added his DNA to the very ________ family tree website.

Two years later, Nibblett finally found her son. After 48 years of being separated, the two made ________ work in reuniting. Kirk anxiously waited outside for his mother to arrive, he did not want to miss a ________. He never thought he would know his biological mother, but she never gave up hope that she would ________ her son one day. The first words they speak in each other arms show the ________ of faith and love. Nibblett cried into her son’s arms. “Thank you God for ________ my son to me.” While Kirk cried to his mother and told her, “Thank you for finding me.”