Once upon a time, there was a bad man named Millisphore. Millisphore was so thoroughly evil that he made a plan to ______ every important thing in the world. ______ by his great machines and ______ , he managed to ruin everything important. After that, he created a potion(毒药)that robbed people of their desire to work. He also managed to give off a ______ gas, which made people prefer to stay at home rather than ______ .

When things had reached the point where the entire world had been spoilt, Millisphore saw that only one thing     ____ in his way. It was the ______ . Despite all his evil inventions, his potion and his ______ , it seemed that families were still sticking together. What ______ him most was that all the families were resisting him.

He tried making the houses ______. but the families just lived closer together in less space. He also destroyed food, but the families just ______ little food they had, So he continued with his ______ deeds against the only thing that still ______ him, but nothing was working.

____   he discovered the secret to the strength of every family——they ______ each other. Though he tried to invent something to destroy the love. Millisphore ______ managed it. Sad and angry at not having managed to rule the world, he gave up and let everything ______ to normal.

At last, Millisphore was so depressed that all he could think of was to go to his parents' ______, and tell them what he had done. ______ all the wicked deeds he had done, his parents ran out of their house to hug him. They ______ him, and encouraged him to be good.

And so it is that even the family of the most wicked will love him and forgive him for anything! And aren't we fortunate to have a family?

Do you remember the last time you spoke to your mother and expressed how much you love her? If you do, when? I am ______ if it was only me but we that tend to have the habit of avoiding ______ how important our parents are to us.

I am not ______ to expressing how much I love my parents. It is not because I am ______ about tilling it, but because I don’t feel like saying it.

But that ______ the moment I learned that my mother had been ______ with stage 3 breast cancer in November 2016. We followed all her ______ advice. For two years, she continued to fight against the big C, going through the ______ of chemotherapy（化疗）and all.

People around did everything they could to help her—______ and mentally. Her co-church goers, uplifting her spiritually whenever she felt like ______, became more than a family to us. All through her journey, I’ve ______ how these people became a part of her. I couldn’t be too______ for their generosity.

However, after nearly two years of ______, that day finally arrived on March 25, 2018.

It wasn’t easy to ______. It wasn’t easy not to ______ what she had done for me and my siblings. I know it isn’t too late to ______ all the things a mother had done to their children. However, only when they aren’t around us can you notice it ______.

This is one of the things we tend to ______—to appreciate whatever our parents do to us. I know it isn’t late for those whose ______ are still around them. Let them know how much you appreciate all their ______. All they have done in your life is just to make sure you are in good condition.

One month ago my kind grandmother, Nonie, was put into hospice（临终安养院）. This was as much a （n） _________ as anything, since it _________ her to go home with what she needed, rather than being _________ in the hospital. It wasn't clear whether or not she was all that close to _________ . My mother said it could be a   _________   still or it could be any time. My parents _________ I should pick a proper time to visit her in New York.

Three weekends were possible for me to make a _________ in the coming months ： October 20th, November 10th, or December 1st. The _________ in October was certainly the least convenient as I was pretty _________, and I'd have to get all the arrangements in order very ____________. But I chose it because if I waited just out of____________, and Nonie died before I saw her, I'd never ____________ myself. It turns out I did the ____________ thing. When her driver came to pick her up today around noon, Nonie passed out, and never____________ .

My trip was a ____________ one, but I got to spend a full day and a half ____________ next to her and asking her questions. Some questions got more ____________ answers. I wanted to know more about her and my grandpa's love story and how they can stay happily ____________ for nearly 70 years , dedicated to each other until the very end.

My grandpa got dementia(痴呆),and he almost____________ everything slowly. ____________, for years he still remembered Nonie. He died two years ago, and Nonie told me she'd been asking the Lord to take her ever since.