At the age of 8, I needed to fly from Bismarck to Burlington. No one in my family could _______ me, so my parents allowed me to go with a family friend. After flying together for a few hours. we _______ in Chicago for a stopover and discovered that our connecting flight was _______. The family friend made a _______ that I still struggle to understand. She _______ herself on another flight and headed home, leaving me to _______ myself.

I was left with no flight, no plan, no _______ in charge of me. I remember just feeling so _______ because every single face was strange.

Then a woman walked over and sat next to me. I immediately felt a sense of _______ because someone was with me. She gently spoke to me and she ________ me where I was going and where my mother was. She just very calmly asked my ________ to take charge. She said, “I will fly to Pittsburgh, but if you ________ me, I will fly to Burlington with you ________, because you can’t do this alone. And I need your mother’s ________ so that we can call her.” This woman ________ my mother that I would be safe with her. And she indeed took care of me.

For many years, I’ve remembered what she did for a ________. Maybe it didn’t feel ________ to her, but it completely reshaped my ________ of life. In life, people can choose to be beautiful and ________ and provide security and people like this are out there. I just ________ it more than words can really express.

Shirley Raines makes the homeless community in a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles feel human. She _________ Beauty 2 The Streetz, a non-profit organization that provides _________ food, clothing, hair, and makeup (化妆) services to the homeless. And now Shirley _________ the honor of CNN Hero of the Year!

In 1990, her 2-year-old son Demetrius passed away from accidental poisoning. She was _________ and lost her purpose in life. Until one day...

Six years ago, Shirley visited the _________ with a friend asking her to volunteer. She met a lot of homeless people and _________ they didn’t only need to find a home but find _________ and their own worth and beauty. Shirley started to _________ there each Saturday. As she got to know the homeless, they often _________ her for her makeup, hair, and style. She started to offer to “make up” the homeless. They loved it! ____________, she set up an outdoor ____________ shop to serve the homeless. She found her ____________ in life!

Sharing her ____________ on Instagram with photos and even live-streaming (直播) some of her events, Shirley’s influence increased rapidly. Things ____________. She formed her non-profit Beauty 2 The Streetz, and her followers (关注者) ____________ began helping grow her effect. Her Instagram supporters ____________, now over 200,000 people, including licensed barbers, hairstylists, makeup artists. To keep the services ____________, some of them donate their time to help Shirley serve the homeless, while others regularly ____________ money.

Shirley’s kindness, caring, courage, and desire to take action have ____________ making a big difference in people’s lives and serving as a (n) ____________ and inspiration to others.

The winter had been long and boring. I ____ needed a break, so I decided to book a trip to the Caribbean with a friend. I was planning my trip during lunch break when I was ____ of the news that I was fired.

___ my trip wasn’t a good option, as I needed it now more than ever. The night before my trip, I had a dream that my friend came to pick me up to go to the airport. I had two suitcases at the door—one was ____ and the other was empty. When I reached the airport, I ____ I’ d brought the empty one.

When I woke up, I ____ this dream to mean that I was leaving all of my “baggage” behind—and I did. I enjoyed my ____ more than any others I’ d taken. Having had time and distance from my work break-up and a dream about ____ my old baggage, I was looking forward to returning and starting the next chapter of my life.

I knew I wasn’t going to obtain a ____ right away, so I attempted to do one of the things I loved but never had ____ to do: writing. I’ d never published anything before, but I wanted to have a ____. I wrote a few pieces. Most amateurs would ____ smaller publications, but I sent them to the bigger, well-known ones. After several non-responses and ____, my efforts paid off. The most-read newspaper in Canada ____ to publish one of my travel stories.

Now I work full-time as a(n)____ and have published articles in a number of North American magazines. Getting ____ was a life-altering experience for me that could have been   _____. I’ll be the first to admit that it was difficult to ____. But there was something about the dream I had after it happened. That dream, in which I ____ carried on with an empty suitcase, helped me put everything behind me and made me ____ to pursue new careers.