I had a wonderful Easter (复活节) when I was four years old. On Easter morning, there was a _________ to find Easter eggs.

“We will get an egg, right?” I asked my mom. “Yes, of course,” she replied, with a _________ smile.

The staff member in charge of the hunt _________ that when she yelled “Go”, the hunt would begin. “Get ready!” the staff member yelled. “We are starting in 3…2…1…GO!”

Kids rushed across the lawn (草坪), _________ from one tree to another searching for the plastic Easter eggs filled with candy. Ten minutes passed but I had nothing to _________. I looked across the lawn and saw the other kids _________ holding up their plastic eggs and knew my chance of finding even one egg was getting _________. Just then my mom pointed to a tree across the lawn. “Look! There’s one!”

A shiny blue plastic egg was resting on the ground _________ the base of the tree. I looked up at my mom in _________. However, instead of smiling back at me, she was turning to the left, in the __________ of another mom. The two moms were alternating (交互的) between __________ at each other and at what appeared to be the last Easter egg.

I hadn’t seen my mom run before that day. She had been born with __________ knees and when she was in elementary school she had worn special shoes to __________ a foot problem.

The other mom also ran toward the shiny blue egg. In one last __________ of speed, my mother reached the tree, bent down and __________ the egg. “Yay! I got an egg!” I shouted in excitement.

When I become a mother, it changed the way I looked at my own mom. That made our_________deeper and made me want to know more about how she was as a _________in those days when I was young. I also like to ask her how she dealt with those milestone motherhood moment and _________it to my situations.

I was 37 when I had my twins, living in New York. When my mother was 37, I was 12 and my sister was 9. We also lived in New York. Despite the similar _______our lives were so different when we were both that age. She was well into motherhood; I was just _______, from her.

My mom was 25 when she became a mom. And when I was 25, it was an important year for me as well. I was going through a sense of _______when I was 25. I felt unsettled, thinking I wasn’t doing the right things. I felt unaccomplished_______ had just finished post-graduate (研究生) studies at college. I didn’t know whether I should take the_______route and become a teacher or the potentially (潜在地) unstable route of _______writing career. It was around that time that I __________doing some very deep thinking. The result was that I__________moving back to New York from the Hudson Valley. It was move that____________changed my life.

When my mother was 25, she was ________to new motherhood. I’m sure there were times when she felt uneasy. She was experiencing a huge life change, so was I. It’s kind of poetic when you think about it.

I think I will do this every year —____________|my own past, asking my mother questions, reflecting and filling in the blanks. It makes me feel__________to her, teaches me things, and gives me even more memories.

The phone call came one cool winter day. I was _________ that my father was seriously ill.

It had been long since I had seen my father. Ever since his _________ from my mom, my father had lived alone in a small trailer(房车)in California, 500 miles away from me. The real _________ between us seemed so much greater. I was in no hurry to _________ that, but somehow I heard myself _________ to the owner of the trailer to be there the next day.

The whole drive down, _________ flashed through my mind. I remembered my father, the proud Marine. He made sure the first song I _________ was the Marine Hymn(美国海军陆战队队歌). He snatched of (扯下)the Christmas _________ all the decorations the rest of us had _________ and rehung them so there was of the __________ same space between them. But we need not __________ those military orders, as we were not soldiers. I remembered __________ the battles he had with my mother. I remembered hoping to hear my father say __________ once, "I love you, Patty", only to have him __________ at me, "You can't do anything right!'

And now here I was standing outside his trailer, trying to __________ my courage to face him once more. I knocked on the door, my hand and my whole body __________ . No answer. Slowly I opened the door. I took a few __________ inside and stopped, too shocked to believe my eyes.

My father was sitting on his sofa, looking confused and crying This wasn't the __________ man I had known growing up. He seemed broken.

A sense of __________ overtook me, and I knew what I had to do. He would be my father forever. Without __________ , I went back inside and packed up all of my father's things . I would take him to my home---our home.