My grandparents actively practiced simplicity. They both grew up in very large families and _________ the Great Depression. Saving for a rainy day was their life philosophy. They chose to spend really _________ life together with their family rather than seeking _________ through material items.

Over the years my grandparents have noticed _________ changes in their community. Every year more farmland was _________ to build larger and larger homes. As real estate (地产) prices rose, many of their neighbors _________ their little homes and land. Soon theirs was _________ little house surrounded by the sea of mansions. Lots of family members _________ my grandparents to expand their little old house. But they didn’t want a bigger one. They loved their little house and were _________ with what they had.

They also __________ everything. For instance, they had driven the same car for over 15 years and didn’t buy a new one until the old Chevrolet was __________.

Through their example, I learned an important __________: it is possible to live a simple life. My grandparents taught me that living a simple life isn’t about self-deprivation (自我牺牲). __________, it’s about giving yourself the time, freedom and money to pursue your dreams. Becoming debt free, living in a __________ building, and going out on foot are good ways to __________ your life and start pursuing your dreams.

Abbey is 34 years old, who lives in Oklahoma. She was in _________ when she was told at her 19-week scan that her baby was   _______   by the deadly illness—anencephaly (无脑畸形). It meant she would not_______beyond a few hours.

According to the National Institute of Health, the illness means the baby has an _______   brain and incomplete skull. Approximately one in 10,000 babies in the US is born with anencephaly, most of which _______   miscarriage(流产).

_________, Abbey and her husband Robert decided to have a live_______so that they could spend time with their baby and_______her organs—   _______   the baby the first infant newborn donor in the state.

Afterwards, they asked the doctor for the________ of their unborn child and decided to name her ________. They called her: Annie, which means “grace”.

Abbey told, “__________a terminally-ill baby to term was by far the most difficult thing I have ever done. For us, when ________, we were still able to see so much __________.

The family spent just 14 hours and 58 minutes with Annie ________ she passed away. Her organs were not __________   for transplant because her oxygen levels were too low—which Abbey said was__________––but they were able to give her heart valves and some of her organs could be used for ________.

She believes Annie’s story__________hope and it shows people that in the midst of__________, there can be beauty.

My father, a soldier, was ordered to change his duty station again. His favorite musical instrument—the ukulele I had watched him play each day—was going to be ______ there lifeless.

It came as a ______ because we had just moved into the present duty station a few weeks before. It was the fourth time we'd moved to a ______ place in just two years. Far from his hometown for a long time though, music, a ______ of his home and Hawaii culture, was ______ in the whole life of my father. We learned about our ancestors and family traditions ______ through his music.

But this time, everything was ______. We were finally “home” in Hawaii and expected to ______ a place that we'd only heard about in my parents5 stories. We were just arriving, but he was already prepared to ______ again, this time without us. ______ we were surrounded by cousins and aunties who grew up knowing each other and ______ a cultural tradition of which we only knew one or two. We were ______ in the family, because the person we were only familiar with, our father, was gone. That was when I ______ my father's ukulele. As I plucked (弹拨) the strings tunelessly, I felt ______ to him and our Hawaiian roots. So I picked up an old song book, and I ______ myself to play. I would play and sing, as if my father had been here. After my father eventually ______ he bought another ukulele, and we had a mini concert. He was ______ that I had learned so much. After that, the ______ I really acquired was that music has the ______ to do the extraordinary things ______ us to our culture and each other, our past and our present.