Sometimes people and things around you can remind you of yourself. I was________to my writing group with a book to read on the journey. Because it was an old book I didn’t want to “dog-ear” the pages. I________in my pockets for something to use as a bookmark. I placed a ten pound note between the________.

Sitting on the bus I took the book out and was about to read but a young woman behind me who was speaking on her cellphone drew my________. She was talking to her brother. She wanted to know where he was, why he wasn’t where he was________to be, why he had________their mother again and whether he knew that their mum had________in tears that morning because of him.

She kept it quiet but she didn’t pull any punches（留情）with him. She let him know exactly what she________him but I could________there was love under all the________. She tried so hard to________this young man to come see his mother, but I got the sign she was fighting a________battle.

When she left the bus, I________behind her and________out the note in the book. “Excuse me,” I said. “Do me a________, would you? Take this money and buy your________a box of chocolates or a bunch of flowers. And tell her a________man said that being a mother is the________but most important job in the world.”

Then I turned around and walked on,________if in some way I was saying a thank-you to my own mum. But I hoped I had raised a________on the face of a mother suffering for her child.

Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. That ________ nearly ended one night in 2010.Hill, then a 17-year-old high school student in California ________ a car accident that put her in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the waist down. For most people, that would have ________ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. Far from being a(n) ________ , her wheelchair encouraged her. “I wanted to ________ to my community-and to myself-that I was still ‘normal’,” she said. “Whatever normal meant.”

Normal for her meant dancing. ________, Hill did it in her wheelchair right alongside her non-disabled high school dance team. “Half of my body was ________ me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “It ________ took a lot of learning and patience.” After graduation, Hill wanted to expand her dance network to ________ women like her. She met people online who had suffered various spinal cord (脊髓) injuries but shared her ________, and she invited them to dance with her. ________ to reach more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and ________ a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes.

Hill has ________ what many of us never will: her childhood dream. And for many of her ________, it was the first time they’d felt a sense of ________. They say that being part of the Rollettes team has made them more ________.

The dancers aren’t the only ones feeling ________. One woman saw a YouTube video of the team competing and commented, “You are so ________! To be in a wheelchair and still be so beautiful ________ that I can be beautiful too! I’m really very ________ to you!”