It was my 28^th birthday, and I was seriously depressed.

I was a newly divorced mom, ________ two small children on my own. My six-year-old son, Nicholas, was in ________. I had taken three months off, because my five-month-old daughter, Maya, had been very ill.

I hadn’t lived in Utah (犹他州) long and I was still ________ cold and snow. That January was one of the most unpleasant in years. The day before my ________, I was in a bad mood. A cloud of ________ hung over me as I made the bed for the kids that night. My little Nick wrapped his ________ around my neck and said, “Tomorrow is your birthday, Mommy! I can’t wait!” His ________ blue eyes shone with excitement.

The next morning, I awoke before the kids and began to make breakfast. I heard ________ in our tiny living room. I thought Nick was up, so I waited for him to come in to eat. Then I heard him telling Maya to “make Mommy ________ today.”

His words suddenly ________ me： I’d been so absorbed in my sadness that I hadn’t realized how it was ________ my children. Sensing my unhappiness, my little boy was doing his best to do something about it. ________ a smile on my face, I went into the living room to hug my children. There ________ Nick on the floor, Maya on the blankets next to him, and ________ them was a pile of ________.

I looked wide-eyed and open-mouthed at the presents. “Happy birthday” my son cried. “I ________ you, Mommy, didn’t I?”

I hugged my son and daughter and told them how ________ I was to have them in my life. The ________ gifts, each ________ with kindergartener’s pocket money, were the best I’ve ever received. The final gift was Nick’s personal favorite: a wax birthday cake with words “I love you” ________ across the top.

A young man and a young woman determined to get married. As the big day drew nearer and nearer, they both grew _________ because each of them had a(n) _________. The man _________ to ask his father for advice. “Dad,” he said, “I _________ Lily very much, but I have very smelly feet, so I’m afraid that she will _________ them.” His father said, “All you have to do is wash your feet as often as possible, and you should always wear socks, _________ when you go to bed.” Well, it seemed a _________ way, the young man thought.

The young woman _________ turned to her mother. “Mom,” she said, “My morning breath is so bad that I’ m afraid my _________ will feel sick about it. And he may ______________ me. I can’t live without him.” Her mother said, “In the morning, get straight out of bed when you wake up, and head for the ______________ and brush your teeth. Don’t say any word before you brush your teeth.” The young woman ______________ her mother’s words.

They were finally married in a wonderful ceremony (仪式). Not forgetting the ______________ each had received, they carefully spent every day. The husband ______________ his socks every night and the wife said ______________ every morning; they ______________ quite well until about a month later. Just before dawn, the husband woke and ______________ that one of his socks was gone! Thinking of the terrible result, he felt ______________ at once. He jumped up and began to look for his sock in a hurry. Of course, this made the wife wake. Without thinking, the wife asked ______________, “What on earth are you doing?”The husband stopped in surprise, and then he cried, “Oh, no! You must have ______________ my sock!”

This is the story of two lovers, who finally got married. Both of them were romantic at first, _________on the walk of life, problems, quarrels, profession came into their life.

One day, she finally decided “I want to break up”. “Why?” he asked.

“I am _________.” she answered.

He kept silent the whole night, seemingly in deep thought. Finally he asked, “What can I do to _________your mind?”

Looking into his eyes she said, “Answer my question. If you can _________ my heart, I will change my mind. Let’s say, I want a flower growing on the face of a mountain cliff, we both are sure that picking the flower will cause your _________, will you do it for me?”

He said, “I will give you my _________tomorrow.”

She woke up the next morning, found him gone, and saw a piece of paper on her bed, which goes “My dear, I would not pick that flower for you, the _________are …”

“When you use the computer you always mess up the software, and you cry in front of the screen. I have to save my fingers so that I can help to restore the programs. You always leave the house keys behind, thus I have to save my _________to rush home to open the door for you. You love traveling but always lose your way in a (n) _________ city. I have to save my eyes to show you the way. You always __________at the computer, and that will do nothing good for your eyes. I have to save my eyes __________ when we grow old, I can help to clip your nails and help to remove those __________white hairs.”

“Thus, my dear, unless I am sure that there is someone who loves you __________ I do … I could not pick that flower yet, and die …”

That’s life, and __________. Flowers, and romantic moments are only used and appear on the __________of the relationship. Under all this, the pillar of true love stands.