Every year on my birthday, a white gardenia (栀子花) was _________to my house. But no card or note came with it. Calls to the flower shop were always _________— it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just _________in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower lying in soft pink paper.

But I never stopped _________who the giver might be. My mother _________to these imaginations. She asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing _________. I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I fell in love with or one who had a _________on me even though I didn’t know him.

One month before my high-school graduation, my father died. My feelings _________from sorrow to fear and anger: my dad was _________some of the most important events in my life. I became completely __________in my coming graduation, the senior-class play and the ball. But my mother would not hear of my losing any of those things. Mother and I had gone shopping and found an impressive dress, but it was the __________size. When my father died, I forgot about the dress.

The day before my ball, I found that dress — in the right size — hanging over the living room sofa. It was __________to me so lovingly. I didn’t __________if I had a new dress or not. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel __________, filled with a sense that there was a beauty even in the face of __________.

My mother died ten days after I was married. The following year the gardenia stopped coming.

Allen Cook and his daughter Melissa found a crack（裂缝）in one of the ceilings while decorating her house. What they discovered within turned out to be part of a beautiful, heartwarming_______story.

"The envelope was _______and yellow. It has never been_______. In the letter she was talking about the baby she was going to have." Allen Cook told CNN, _______May 4 of that year, the typed letter was written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, Rolf Christoffersen. At the time, he was a sailor abroad. The envelope was_______"return to sender" and never_______its way to her husband until this week. Allen's daughter called and visited a man named Rolf Christoffersen in Santa Barbara, California.

"Someone googled my name and called me at my office_______I have the same name as my father." Christoffersen's son, 66, told CNN. The younger Christoffersen wasn't yet born when his mother Virginia wrote the letter, but Seventy-two years later, her_______were finally heard by her husband. Christoffersen _________ call his father, who is now 96 and also lives in California, and read the letter to him __________.

"I was so surprised and__________to find out that a letter like that__________. I am still very__________,"the elder Christoffersen told CNN. The long-lost letter is believed to have fallen through a crack in the__________floor of the house, where the Christoffersens used to live.

Finally__________just before Mother's Day, it is now another meaningful __________ to Virginia Christoffersen. It’s __________ and reading her words__________me just what a wonderful person she was and how much she__________us,"her son said, through __________.

“Dad, you do remember that you promised to come to my class tomorrow, right?” Jenny asked Dad before she went to bed.

“I remember,______I am not sure if I can be there,” said Dad. “It might be a very busy day tomorrow.”

“But Dad, our teacher has asked all the students to invite one of their______to come and tell us about the jobs that they do. That way we can get a(n)______of what we might like to do someday. Tomorrow is the day that was set aside (留出) for you. Some of the kids’ parents_____came in the past weeks. I really hope you can come too,“ said Jenny eagerly (渴求地).

”I will try my best, but I just wanted to let you______that I may not be able to make it,“ said Dad.

The next day Jenny______nervously in her seat. She was______her father would not come to her class. It seemed as if the clock stood still.______, the wait was over and the teacher stood up from her desk.

“Okay, class. We have a very special______for Parent Job Day today,” the teacher said. Then she______the classroom and brought in a cart (手推车)that was covered with a cloth (布). Everyone tried to see______was under the cloth. Just then, Jenny’s dad walked in.

“Hi, boys and girls. I am Jenny’s father, and I am a baker (面包师). I have brought something that I______just for you. You may each have one of the cupcakes that I made. They are special because they are sugar-free. Hope you like______,” Jenny’s dad smiled.

“Everyone______the cupcakes,” Jenny said when she got home from school. She gave her dad a big hug. “They all said I was very______to have a dad like you, and I think you have the best job in the world.”