There was a time in my life when things got bad. We had a failing business and owed lots of _______. What’s worse, our oldest daughter became very _______.

It started as a cough, and then she started running a fever. I _______ took her to the doctor and he confirmed that she got pneumonia(肺炎). “She needs to be _______ to the hospital,” he said. I told him about the _______ time we were having. Hearing that, he comforted me and then _______. After a while, he returned and said, “The hospital is full. There is no _______ for her. We are going to start her IV(静脉滴注), and after that, you can take her _______.

For the next five days, I want you to bring her back to my office at 7: 30 am. We will _______ the IVs until we close.”

I couldn’t believe my ears and ________ him sincerely. Every morning we made the trip to the hospital at 7: 30 sharp. The medical ________ always made sure we were taken good care of. I was deeply ________. Gradually, my daughter got better.

On our last day, the doctor came and said to my daughter, “You made us worried, young lady, but you ________!”

He added, “Our hospital has decided that your family wins the most loyal patient award, which is actually one free ________.” I’ll never forget that it was this wonderful doctor and his staff that treated us with ________ and respect.

Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $20. This was the 1970s, and $20 was quite a bit of money．

But I saw it________．My father trusted me to have the________ to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the ________to get it. On a very basic level ，my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢）every year. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and making me feel like a/an________. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him．

My mother had a/an ________for giving me what I needed, usually   right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I________at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my ________job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I________a good show, telling her I had started my own company．

My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until ________she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with _______．She knew how ________I needed it．She knew that if she had just shown up with groceries，or offered to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much ________．The cold，hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the________with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to________my life and preserve my dignity．My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own decisions，and the other was giving me a second ________ when those decisions had cost me dearly．

I will never forget such an uncomfortable conversation in my career life, but thankfully it turned into the most _________ one I’ve ever had.

That was in my first year of work as a doctor. A woman in her early twenties was _________ after a traffic accident. She suffered multiple injuries, and was rushed to theatre. I spent some time talking to the _________ as they waited for news. The surgeons _________ to save her life. The consultant told them the news. I sat with them for some time as they _________ quietly.

When I left the room, the consultant was standing outside. “I think it would be _________ if it came from you.” he said. I stared blankly. “What?” I asked. “About organ donation.” he replied. “Why me?” I was about to ask but swallowed it. Surely this would be the _________ thing they’d want to talk about. It was _________ to be considering this kind of conversation while someone was lost in grief (悲伤). Feeling _________, I opened the door and sat opposite them, convinced that I was only going to make things __________ for them.

“It’s what she’d have wanted,” the mother said __________ I’d even finished. The father nodded, “She was always so generous.” __________ I had imagined they might be angry with me, in fact they seemed calm.

As I left them, it occurred to me that I’d been __________ in thinking it would be an uncomfortable conversation. Nothing could take away the pain of having lost their daughter. Yet this final act had __________ them and helped them feel that the spirit of their daughter lived on in this act of __________.