Often firefighters are referred to as heroes because they are willing to put their lives on the line. My husband is a firefighter.

He has been in _________ situations many times over the years. _________ being married for twenty years, it is strange that I don't often worry about the _________ he takes in his job. What makes him a hero to me are all the things he _________ in his personal life while being a firefighter in his professional life.

Our friends often _________ on how lucky he is to have a work schedule that _______ him to be home in the middle of the week. What is often _________ is the time that he is away. His job _________ that he leave his family half the month. But it _________ for us and our marriage is stronger for it. We have to sacrifice many important family __________ such as our anniversary, our son's soccer games, and many holidays. We have had to __________ because of his absence. He cannot come home for a(n) __________ pipe or to help with a chore. I have never thought of asking him to do that.

This type of marriage might not work for everyone, __________ we are willing to do what it takes to make it work. When George comes home, we have all of his __________ . He can be found __________ at the kitchen table helping our son with a school project or __________ some household errands (差使) for me. He leaves his helmet behind at work and __________ his husband, father or gardener hat. When I __________ in my mind, my firefighter, I see the amazing personal   __________ he makes to make sure others are safe while always trusting that we are too. He is my __________.

One day, my brother and I were driving home together. Because we became _________ in a conversation, my brother took a wrong turn which took us towards a bridge and we had no way to turn back._________, my brother paid the bridge toll and drove on. He was clearly _________ by the mistake and the needless waste of $4.

We _________ reached an exit slip-way and, as we took it, my brother noticed a black car _________ at the road side. A young guy was standing nearby trying to phone someone. I was busy trying to _________ which way we went next but my brother pulled over and asked the guy if he needed any _________. And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a wrench (扳手) to get it off.

My brother _________ him a wrench, and then helped him change the flat. We started getting to _________ the young man who was from a nearby neighborhood. He said that this has been a __________ week for him; earlier he had gotten into a car accident, and now this __________ on his way home from work. But he called us, “a breath of __________ air,” and kept thanking us because he really would have been __________ if we hadn’t come along. After we had finished the job he thanked us again and __________ a reward of $20. “No,” I said. “We were never supposed to even get on that __________, and we took a wrong turn. But now we know why we did. It was to assist you. Thank you for changing our mistake into an opportunity to __________.”

What I __________ most was watching my brother throughout this process. He was able to __________ his agitation (烦乱) for the mistake into positive energy. He was able to see a __________ to help (which I totally missed!) even in an otherwise negative situation, which can only come from a __________ mind and an open heart.

Ebra Ferrell got the standard well wishes on social media on her 53rd birthday. Meanwhile, she got some _______ messages too. One was about a family who had just _______ their four-year-old son due to cancer. His older brother was especially _______. Could Ferrell help?

That _______ and the 30 others like it were exactly what Ferrell was looking for. To celebrate her 53rd, Ferrell had put out a(n) _______ on social media. She wanted to _______ 53 random acts of kindness by the end of her birth month, and she needed _______ on people who could use one. When she got the note about the family, she sent a wind chime (风铃) with the words “Listen to the wind and know that I am near” _______ on it. It now _______ in the four-year-old’s bedroom, where his brother can go to listen to it whenever he wants.

This is not the first time that Ferrell has decided to give ________ for her birthday. For her 47th, she ________ Love with Skin On, an organization devoted to doing good deeds in her town and ________. Its motto is simple: Be Love, Do Stuff. Over the years, Ferrell has ________ and touched well over 100 strangers, some found via social media callouts, others with ________ from her grandkids.

Ferrell ________ everything herself: gift cards, pay-it-forward purchases, and care packages, as well as the gas it ________ to play fairy godmother (仙女玩具). Her family often gives some ________ birthday cash to her with their   ________ not to spend it on anyone else, which she ________ ignores. “I got a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday this year, and ‘YESSS!’” It’s Ferrell’s party, and she’ll ________ if she wants to.