A mother battling breast cancer is feeling grateful for the kindness she received by a complete stranger. Amy Pettenato was _________ breakfast with her family at the Metropolis Diner when she noticed another family kept looking at her and smiling. Pettenato _________ they were looking at her because of her shaved head.

“I got _________ , and teared up. I went into self-conscious mode about my _________ . It was the first time I’d been out since I’d shaved my head,” she said. “But then came the moment that changed the meaning of those glances _________ . The mom _________ and sits next to us and told me she was a 13 year breast cancer survivor. So we _________ for a bit and she wished me luck with everything I’m going through and _________ me to stay positive.”

Pettenato and her family finished _________ and asked for the check, but learned it had been paid by the kind ________ . They all looked at the waitress __________ and she said the woman next to them had paid their bill. The __________ woman who took five minutes out of her time to __________ Pettenato and share her experience.

After the __________ had been shared in the Sachem moms’ Facebook group, a friend called and said he found her __________ . The woman wrote Pettenato and said __________ they might not know each other, they were “bonded as pink sisters” and she’d paid it forward because she knew how __________ the struggle is for Pettenato right now.

Pettenato says she __________ her story so others would know they are not facing the __________ alone. “My journey,” she said, “is going to be somebody else’s support system. And positivity is __________ .”

A baby giraffe born with a leg abnormality has been fitted with special leg braces (支架) to help her walk.

The giraffe is named Msituni. She _________ from a condition called carpal hypertension (腕骨高血压). It affected the young animal’s front legs, which was especially _________ to a giraffe. The abnormality was putting a lot of _________ on her joints and bones. Zoo workers _________ that she could die if they did not quickly correct the _________. This is because it could _________ the giraffe from getting food and from being able to walk around.

Zoo officials called in experts to treat the giraffe. The medical team had a lot of _________ fitting people with braces to correct leg problems. But they had _________ treated an animal before. Ara Mirzaian was a member of the medical team. He found the situation strange and _________ went online to start learning as much as possible about giraffes.

The team __________ models of the giraffe’s legs. It took the team about a week to produce the braces, which were made of a material called carbon graphite (碳石墨). After 10 days in the special brace, the problem was __________ . In total, Msituni was in braces for 39 days from the day she was born. She __________ in the animal hospital the whole time.

Mirzaian said he planned to __________ a picture in his office of the baby giraffe wearing her special brace so that the children he treats might be __________ to wear their own braces. “It was the coolest thing to see an animal like that walk in a brace,” he said. “It feels __________ to know we saved a giraffe’s life.”

One day, 75-year-old Delores Bushong returned home and couldn’t find her cat Hank. After calling his name in the neighborhood, she finally spotted him_________up a tree. She believed Hank was frightened by some dogs.

Bushong was_________about how he would get down. She called the fire department and even construction companies but none were able to come. Bushong felt extremely_________, but her neighbors showed her that she was not alone.

Ed Baptiste, whose tree Hank had climbed, let Bushong sit in his backyard and call to Hank. Another neighbor_________a can of sardines (沙丁鱼), hoping it might make the hungry cat _________. Nearby dog owners took their pets on walks instead of leitting them out in their yards to avoid further_________Hank.

By day five, despite the kindness of these neighbors, nothing had_________. That’s when another neighbor told Bushong how her friends_________their cat from a tree before. They looped some rope around at all branch and pulled a _________up to where the cat was sitting. The cat then jumped in and returned to__________.

Then Bushong fled a small basket with some of Hank’s favorite things. With the help of volunteers from a local tree company, they shot a pulley (滑轮) attached to a rope high into the tree. They got__________on the first try, as the rope caught a branch directly above Hank. Pulling on the other end of the rope, they__________the basket just beneath him. To their great __________, he jumped in, and they lowered him.

Hank’s__________taught his grateful owner a lesson about__________helping neighbors and small acts of kindness. From then on, Hank could only go outside with his owner.