My kids sit in Gee’s room, curiously selecting their favorite ornaments (装饰品) out of a well-loved box. Gee stands by and patiently _______ each treasure. These _______ objects, which she and Tom displayed on the Christmas tree, have found a new _______.

I first met Tom in the early days of my marriage. Someone had been _______ our garbage cans to the garage each garbage day. I had wondered who. Then one day I _______ him: an elderly man living across the street.

I left a thank-you note outside the garage. When we got home that day, I found a typed letter had _______ the note. The letter was from Tom. He said when he’d been fighting wars overseas, his young wife, Gee, had lived alone. It was the neighbors who had taken the time to _______ her garbage cans. Now he repaid their _______.

Tom died last month. Overcome with _______, we photocopied that letter and gave it to Gee. We told her how ________ we were to have known Tom. When Gee invited us to look through those Christmas ________, I realized how hard it was for her to ________ that box, a piece of Tom.

These days, we’re planning a ________. Our old house is crowded with furniture, toys and people. ________, we decide to wait till January. This Christmas, we’ll decorate our tree with Tom and Gee’s ornaments. Maybe I’ll talk to the couple. Thank you. For teaching us what it means to be a ________.

My mom is the most positive person I know. She has a/an ______ spirit, sees the good in all people, and always sees ______ in any situation. I grew up in a ______, positive home environment, where there were always family ______ and lots of laughter.

I have fond memories of my mom taking us to ______ every Saturday morning. While my brother and I would have rather stayed home on our day off from school, she had us ______ her to help people in Roanoke, Virginia who needed groceries (食品杂货) to feed their families. While she did her service role, we helped to prepare bags of food. ______, this got to be something we looked forward to and we always left feeling ______ about what we did.

My sweet mom ______ made doing housework enjoyable. The best ______ I learned from her that sticks with me today is “O­H­I­O”. Growing up, my mom would ______ me a pile of clean clothes and I would ______ set them on the floor, ______ to put them away later. My mom would say, “Kids, you’ve got to ______: OHIO! That means Only Handle It Once. When I give you clothes, put them away in your ______ as soon as I give them to you so they are only in your hands only.”

When Marion Sheppard was unable to see in her 40s, she cried. Wasn’t it _______ that she’d been partly deaf since childhood? That struggle and the _______ that usually came with it didn’t defeat her, but made her _______.

Sheppard had always been an enthusiastic dancer since childhood, but now she was so scared that she _______ left her apartment. She worried about the way she would _______ to the world. Hard as it was, Sheppard later _______ herself to go out.

At 61, Sheppard attended a camp organized by Visions for blind people, where she taught her first dancing class. She _______ to teach her class there after that. But she was _______. She soon convinced Visions to let her teach on a _______ basis. About four years later, her classes won so much ________ that Visions hired her to be on staff. Sheppard’s students were mostly seniors whose eyesight had ________ as adults. With confidence-building praise, Sheppard also ________ dignity and independence into them.

As a way to combine movements with her faith, Sheppard ________ a group called The Blind Sisterhood. What is her ________ for maintaining both physical and mental health despite ________ life throws at her? “Keep it moving!”