When I was a child my father taught me five words that I’ve used all my life — in my acting career, as a mother, in my business activities. If I ____ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, “Stand porter to your find.”

A porter is a gatekeeper, who stands at a door letting people in or out. Dad would get me to ____ myself stopping destructive things — such as fear — at the door, ____ saying. “Come in” to faith, love and self-assurance.

As an actress, before I went on camera, I’d make sure anxiety stayed out and confidence in my ability came in. As a mother, when I was ____ about my children, I would try not to let worry in but would ____ my mind with trust in them.

Of course, there were always times I’d ____ those words.

In 1972 my husband, Fillmore Crank, and I opened the doors to our own ____ in North Hollywood. This was a new business venture for us, and it was a lot more demanding and complicated than we had ____.

We were on call 24 hours a day. Something was always going ____. Electricity went on the blink, food wasn’t delivered, employees called in sick. Once a flu epidemic suddenly left us with no maids. Fillmore gave me a ____: scrub floors or do the laundry. For 10 days I folded enough king-size sheets to ____ the whole state of California.

Then — there was the ____ crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California ____. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept losing money? What if we failed? Fear and worry were sneaking in. But I caught them just ____. I stood porter.

I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.

These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to ____, I just smile and point to the sign that reads No Vacancy.

During a terrible boat accident in Texas, 7-year-old Lucas proved you could be a superhero at any age.

Breanna and her_______headed out on two different boats at a lake. A few minutes later, the _______thing happened. A blowup_______occurred at the back of the bigger boat, sending several family members flying into the air and setting the_______on fire. Breanna watched_______from the smaller boat. Her 7-year-old son, Lucas, was in the bigger boat,_______two of his younger cousins.

“I was frightened," Breanna_______.“I believed Lucas received flash burns to his body when the_______happened."

But despite the great_______and fear the 7-year-old must have felt, Lucas fixed his eyes on making sure his younger cousins________safely. "He said he didn't want anyone else hurt," Breanna explained. “Lucas was ________ too and asked, 'mom, am I going to die'”?

First responders sent Lucas to the hospital where doctors ________ began treating his injuries. Lucas has a long road to________. But he is facing all of it with unbelievable________for a 7-year-old boy.

Friends, family, and the community have come together to help________Lucas and his family during this________time. In addition to raising money through the sale of special “Lucas superhero” goods, an online fundraiser has ________more than $9, 000 being raised to help with medical bills.

Seeing your child________is the worst nightmare of any parent. But Breanna knows she's ________to still have her son after the terrible accident. “Though I wish this wouldn't have happened,

I'm________that it happened exactly as it did because we are all still here," she said.

Like many military wives, I had to stand the long separations until my husband retired. Though I supported his chosen career, I _________ every moment away from him.

To _________ our separations, I wrote letters every day. I made up dozens of small _________ for him which I secretly put into his bag, so that he could_________ them when he was out to sea. To this day those notes are still _________ to us.

_________ in 1996 my husband retired from the Navy. But the only job _________for my husband was six-and-a-half hours away in Norfolk, Virginia.

We spent eight months_________. That was our hardest separation, perhaps because we had _________ planned to be apart again. He__________ to apply for jobs in the area where we hoped to live. We expected we would soon be able to be __________ again.

One day Louie called me with the good __________. He found a job in southwest Virginia. We were excited ! There was only one small__________. Louie would have to live in a camper(露营车),__________ our daughters and I lived in a little house an-hour-and-a-half away. My daughters were __________enough to take care of themselves, so I left them and stayed with Louie.

Louie and I spent a __________ three-and-a-half weeks together. One morning after he left for work, I sat __________ in the camper trying to remember any possession that was as priceless as the __________we stayed together. I couldn’t __________a single thing. Then all of us moved into that camper and lived there for a year. It was pure joy! I’ve learned in that year that the greatest __________ I have is the time I ’ve spent with the ones I love.