One of my earliest childhood memories was waiting outside our house for my Dad. We had a long driveway_________our house and on that same side yard stood a big tree. The tree had some_________branches.

My brother, Bob, and I_________wait for our Dad by climbing up and sitting in a branch until we could see Dad’s car start to pull into our driveway. When that_________came, we would happily_________down as fast as we could and run to Dad’s car. We couldn’t _________for him to get out of his car!

I still remember the_________. I felt each night when Dad hugged us in his_________ . I was so _________ to get that hug, I think I probably would have waited out forever — or __________since breakfast time! When he gave us that warm hug, I could feel how much he ____________ us. I am so ____________ to my Dad for this wonderful memory.

When Dad became ____________ just a few years after that and couldn’t communicate his love in words or hugs any____________, I still had those memories of his “coming home from work to be with us” scenes.

It has now been twenty-five years ____________ my Dad has passed away, yet the memories continue to be ____________ for me. But of all the ____________ Bob and I have, the “waiting for him to come home for the evening hug” is to me, the ____________ one of all. Each time I       ____________ it, it’s as if my Dad was here with me once more, and I can feel his love ____________ me again.

Luis Escobar, a coach at St. Joseph High in Santa Maria, was just looking for a fun idea to change the practice for his summer program. _______, he took 14 runners from his school to the local animal shelter, and paired them with 14 dogs.

“When I first _______ the idea there were a lot of eye rolls,” he said. _______, it is a group of high schoolers.

The group got a bit excited when they were told the run would _______ as part of their community service requirement that everyone at their high school has to meet. Then once the students saw the dogs, they immediately became just more _______.

“I wasn't sure who was more excited,” he said, “the _______ or the dogs.”

After a short _______, the group went for a mile and a half run. Escobar _______ the amazing practice and posted the video online - as he does with many of the different _______ he does with his team. It spread quickly and was ________ by millions of people on social media. There were thousands of ________   and it was quickly picked up by local news. Escobar was ________. “I wonder why this is happening,” he said. “I ________   everyone's looking for something good.”

Soon many coaches have called Escobar asking about how they can ________ similar runs with their teams. And a dog equipment company has donated new harnesses (背带牵引绳) to the ________ so the dogs can go for a more comfortable ________.

And there was more good ________. Fred, who ran with Josh, one of the 14 high school runners, became a     ________ dog - his story had the happiest ending. After the run, Josh convinced his mom that their family needed to   ________ him.

“Once he was just this little dog ________ in a metal cage,” Escobar said. “And now he's at home with Josh and his family.”

As a young girl in rural Zimbabwe, Tererai Trent lived without running water and electricity and had no hope for her future. “I __________ my father pointing to my brothers and the other boys in the village and saying: These are the breadwinners of tomorrow. We need to __________ them. We need to send them to school. The girls will get married,” she says. “And that was just a (n) __________ experience for me.”

__________ to learn, this little girl with big dreams __________ did her brother homework. “I learned to read and write from my brother’s books,” she says. Soon, Tererai’s secret was __________, and the teacher begged her father to let her learn.

Tererai attended only two terms before she was forced to __________ at age 11. By age 18, she was the mother of three. “When my husband realized that I wanted to have a (n) ___________, he would beat me,” she says. “I have nightmares of that time of my life.”

In 1991, a visitor ___________ Tererai’s life forever. Jo Luck, from Heifer International, asked every woman about her greatest __________ — something many of them didn’t know they were allowed to have. “I remember very clearly saying: ‘My name is Tererai, and I want to go to America to __________,’” she says. “And she just looked at me and said, ‘If you desire, it is __________.’ I was definitely inspired by what she said. I determined to fight for my dream.”

Hoping her daughter could break the cycle of poverty, Tererai’s mother __________ her to write her dreams on a piece of paper. The 20-year-old placed them in a small tin and buried them under a rock on the __________ where she used to herd (放牧) cattle. “As a woman without an education, life will continue to be a burden,” she wrote. “I _______these dreams, and I firmly hope one day to work for the causes of women and girls in __________ like me.”

Tererai not only broke the __________ — she ended it for herself and her children. In 1998, Tererai moved to Oklahoma with her husband and now five children. Just three years later, she earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education. In 2003, Tererai obtained her master’s degree __________.

After every __________, Tererai returned home to Zimbabwe, __________ her tin of dreams and checked off each goal she accomplished, one by one.