When my daughter Marita was 13, it was the era of worn jeans. Although I had grown up in _______, I had never dressed this poorly.

One day I _______ her rubbing (搓) her jeans with _______ out in the driveway. _______ at her ruining these pants I had just paid for, I rushed out and asked for the reason. She replied without _______, “You can’t wear new ones. So I’m messing them up with rocks to make them look _______.” But how could it be the style to ruin new clothes?

Each morning as she would leave for school I would stare at her and _______, “My daughter looking like that.” Until one day I personally _______ that many of the other girls looked even _______, I realized how over-reacted I had been.

Back home I ________ a suggestion, “From now on you can wear anything you want to school and with your ________, and I won’t ________ you about it. ________, when taking you out with me, I’d like you to dress in something I like without my having to say a word. What do you think?”

She thought about it. Then she put out her hand and ________ mine. “Mother, you’ve got yourself a ________!” She gets 95 percent her way and I get 5 percent for me.

I was born legally blind. Of all the stories of my early childhood, the one about a _____ is my mother’s favorite.

I was only two when the _____ occurred. We had just arrived home from a trip. Mom lifted me out of the car and turned to speak to the driver. I took advantage of my brief _____ to dash across the lawn(草坪)—and hit a large maple tree! I was running so fast that I bounced off the trunk and _____ on my backside. Mom _____ me to start crying, but I just sat there for a minute. Then I _____ myself up and kept right on going. Mom always adds here that, as many times as I _____ across the lawn after that, I never again _____ into that tree.

Mom loves to use this story as an ______. It reminds her that children don’t enter life ______ to take risks or unwilling to try again when they fall down. She never wanted me to lose that ______ as I grew older. When I made my major life decisions, I was still that little girl tearing full-speed across the lawn. I studied abroad and later moved away from my parents’ home to look for a ______. Through years of ______, I have become a respected teacher in a school serving high- need students.

We are almost certain to get ______ at some point during the process of achieving our goal. When that happens, don’t sit in the grass and cry. Just get up and keep on going. It will all be worth it ______.

The curious and friendly joey named ‘Dusty’ is now so comfortable living with the couple and their dogs Lilly and Rosie on their farm, having a beautiful _________ on a hill, that the Stewarts are_________he is a dog too.

Dusty rides around the property in the back of Mr. Stewart’s truck along with the dogs, sleeps with them on a dog bed, eats with them, and asks for_________.

His unique_________began when Mr. Stewart_________to drive down to a dam on the couple’s property in Wittenoom Hills, 60 kilometres from Esperance, and_________two dogs named Lilly and Rosie.

“I took the dogs in and he was_________around and looking up at the truck and so I just picked him up and put him in the back with them,” Mr. Stewart told Daily Mail Australia. “I didn’t think too much of it. We_________through the farm and came back together. He was_________sitting on the back, and I didn’t drive too fast because I’d be__________about him jumping off. He didn’t jump in, so I__________him in and out.”

While the__________down to the dam has only happened a few times, Dusty, whom the couple often call ‘Skip’, has also picked up some very canine-like__________.

“He just likes to play with the dogs, probably because he thinks he’s a dog. He eats and sleeps with them, and will wander down to the shed with them and lie around if I’m working there,”Mr. Stewart said.

Dusty also has a collar, like many dogs, as a protective__________to ensure he can be found at nighttime. “When he was little we were__________to let him out during the day and he went off grazing and wouldn’t come back at night, so we had to look for him. We just couldn’t find him as kangaroos didn’t make any noise and were very__________. Once we found him he would always come back with us, so we decided to wrap some__________tape around a collar so when we shone a torch at night we could see him,”Mr. Stewart said.

As a poetry written by Walt Whitman__________it, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self﹣contained”. When finished reading this essay, I got a__________and comprehensive understanding of this description. Needless to say, the canine-like kangaroos brought happiness to the Stewarts and enriched their life. And that’s what make me__________that we should treat animals well and live harmoniously.