As I sat motionless on the steps of the pool, watching everyone else swim back and forth, I realized that I had spent most of my life watching others enjoy themselves. It was then that I _______ a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion. I smiled at her, hoping to _______ the ice by talking to her. Unfortunately, my _______ failed and she just kept on staring. My _______ increased as a little boy swam up to me and said, “I feel sorry for you.”

After the _______, a thought struck me, I had to change _______ the world viewed me. Because it was children who stared at me the most, I decided to write a children’s book that taught them about _______ in a fun way. This is when KatGirl, a super hero in a _______ who helps children that are being bullied, came into my mind.

I quickly _______ inside my apartment and began creating the story. As I wrote each word, I could ________ my future as a world-renowned author and public speaker. My excitement ________ like wildfire. Over the next two years, the story ________ many changes before it saw the world in the spring of 2011. My perseverance ________ paid off.

One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school. I confidently wheeled into a classroom filled with students who ________ at me just like the little girl in the pool. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked them. The kids bravely ________ “ I feel sorry for you.”

I opened my book and started reading. Immediately I noticed the children’s stares turned to ________. “ How do you feel when you see me?” I asked again. Without ________ they replied, “You are so cool! Does your ________ fly too?” I just smiled, “No, not yet, but maybe some day.” I knew in my heart that this was ________. The past two years had proven to me that with ________ anything is possible.

Love is a hot topic, but what is love? Here is a story.

It took me a long time before I was able to fully understand my grandparents’ love. They wrote the word “Shmily” in a surprising place for the other to find.______one of them discovered it , it was his/her turn to _____it once more---in shoes, under pillows, even in toilet paper…Their way of life, rather than only a game, _____their love, which not everyone is _____enough to experience. They _____hands every chance they had, finished each other’s sentences and went to _____together.

But there was a dark _____in my grandparents’ life. My grandmother had breast cancer. It had first _____ten years earlier. As usual, Grandpa was with her every _____of the way. He comforted her in their _____room, painted that color so she could always be ____ , even when she was too sick to go outside.

Now, it was even worse, but they still went to church ____ .Grandma grew steadily _____until finally, she could not ____ the house any more. For a while, Grandpa would go to church alone, praying to God to _____his wife out. Then one day Grandma was ____.

_____ was written in yellow on the ribbon of my grandmother’s funeral bouquet(花束). As the crowd thinned and the last mourners _____to leave, Grandpa stepped up, taking a shaky _____, and began to sing to her. Through his tears, the song came, ____.

Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma, for letting me see.

S-h-m-i-l-y: see how much I love you.

The best example of universally understood body language may be the smile. A smile can open doors and tear down walls among ________.

I have organized and reorganized an ________ with the dentist for months. I also ________ it twice and called the day before to ________ all the paperwork would be ready for the x-rays. Then I arrived. It wasn’t ________ at all. The lady there even had no ________ what I was talking about. I ________ felt my blood boil. I was getting so ________. I didn’t yell at her but I may as well have because the ________ I was talking to her was not nice. I spoke down to her like she was a child and incapable. It was not a good moment. But the whole time she smiled and was ________ to me.

Only when everything was finally ________ did I calm myself down. I sat down in the waiting area and ________ it all. How could I make it better? How could I make up for my ________ behavior a moment ago? I couldn’t. I could ________ her a chocolate bar I had on me, but this needed more than that. It needed an honest ________. And that was exactly what I gave.

I apologized for the way I had spoken to her and told her I didn’t mean it. She ________. Again with a ________. God help me be that woman who smiles and forgives so ________. I don’t get it right every time. I can be rude and when I am, I almost ________ myself for it. I am not a person like her. Yet I have confidence in myself. I continue to grow and continue to ________. It’s true that smile took away my anger and opened a door to understanding.