She came in the dead of night, in the cold. She was more than half dead, _______ down to bones. Her hair was completely eaten away by mange (兽疥癣). And finally, she peered into an empty doghouse in the trees. _______ she was out of the winds.

My mother and brother found her in the daylight of the next day. They could not even _______ she was a dog. “And it broke my heart,” my mother said,

They are the kind of people who _______ to give up on anything. My mother even _______ pens that stopped writing in 1974. My brother Mark looked at her tragic face and _______ her, “Hey, Pretty Girl.” It was as if he could see _______ the ruin.

Mark and my mother fed her, gave her water and bathed her in burned motor oil, the way my people have been curing the mange for _______. A month later, a beautiful white German shepherd stood in the garden. She was _______ to last, at most, a few weeks or months, yet she lived three more years-decades, in dog years——________ my brother to watch for rainbow in the garden.

“I ________ for her,” my mother said. “Some people say you needn’t ask for God’s blessing for your dog, but ...” And then after the __________ of years, Pretty Girl began to __________ and died.

Some things in the garden were planted according to science, according to soil and weather. And some things were planted according to traditions, the shape of the moon, and more. However, there are things we cannot __________ things beyond science, like how a man could name a dying dog and have her rise inside that, somehow, to __________.

A dog waiting on a roadside for four years has finally been reunited with its owner thanks to a social media post. Anuchit Uncharoen happened to be there. He_________passing by the dog and seeing it being _________ by a woman late in the afternoon.

When he approached her, he learned that the dog was thought to have been_________. The woman said she_________took the dog to her home, but the loyal friend escaped and returned to the street, waiting for its _________. Since then, the nice woman had been regularly bringing food to him and making sure he was _________. Others in the community had been_________, too.

The dog’s heartbreaking situation made the_________online, eventually reaching his owner. He got in touch with Anuchit and explained that he and his family_________ a dog named BonBon four years ago. Their dog had the same__________as the one in the pictures.

The owner said that BonBon was with them on a trip to a relative. His dog might have__________out of the car while on the road. He and his family__________for BonBon back in the roads but without luck.

They assumed their pet dog had died and were__________to discover him alive and well.When the owner paid BonBon a visit, surprisingly, the dog__________to go with him, even if his tail wagged in excitement.

Someone once said, he might only be here for a(n)__________of your life, but for him, you are his whole life. So to them remember to be kind.