Priscilla and I wrote our newly-born daughter August a letter about the world we hope she grows up in, and also hoping she doesn’t grow up too fast.

Welcome to the world! Your mom and I are so excited to see who you will ______.

When your sister was ______, we wrote a letter about the world we hoped she and now you will grow up in - a world with better education, ______ diseases, stronger communities, and greater equality. Your ______ should live better lives than ours, and we have a(n) ______ to do our part to make that happen. ______ headlines often ______ what’s wrong, we still believe these ______ trends will win out. We’re ______ about your generation and the future.

But ______ write about growing up, we want to talk about ______.

Childhood is magical. You only get to be a child once, so don’t spend it ______ too much about the future. We’ll do everything we ______ can to ______ the world is a better place for you and all children in your generation.

The world can be a serious place. That’s why it’s ______ to make time to go outside and play. You will be ______ when you，re older, so I hope you take time to ______ all the flowers and put all the leaves you want in your bucket now. I hope you sleep soundly and take frequent ______. And I hope even in your ______ you can feel how much we love you.

August, we love you so much and we’re so excited to go on this ______ with you. We wish you a life of joy, love and the same hope you give us.

When I think of my childhood, I remember cycling with my friends and buying orange candies, but most of all, going home to see my grandma waiting at the doorstep and asking, “How was your day, bunny?”

Nana (I call my grandma Nana) saw me ________. She left me many great ________. She told me stories of the fairies and princesses but also of the wars and how she ________ those days.

Nana was born during the Second World War with a very different lifestyle and childhood from me. She didn’t get ________. In fact, she had to help with the housework. Even when her siblings (兄弟姐妹) got the ________ to learn, she would only watch them read and write. But she never ________. That is the most important lesson she had taught me.

She taught me to be ________ whatever things I had in my life. When I ________ to be selected in my school’s cheerleading team, I was very upset, but she made me realize that, if not in the cheerleading team, something else was out there in the world that was going to happen to ________, and it did. I ________ a state-level gymnast.

As years went by, Alzheimer’s disease (老年痴呆症) ate her from the ________. The ________ who once refused to call me by any name but her “little bunny”, now didn’t even remember what my ________ was. Soon, she forgot who I was until I sang Frank Sinatra’s Fly me to the Moon. The tiny spark (火花) of ________ in her eyes was what I ________. The little glimmer (微光) in her eyes meant that I was her “bunny” once again.

One day, the glimmer ________ disappeared from her eyes and that was the day when I knew I had lost my nana. On her last day on this earth, as I sat beside her bed watching her fall in and out of ________, I heard her hum Fly me to the Moon ________. That was the last time when I heard her ________, but I will keep it in my heart forever.

Nana took a piece of my childhood with her when she ________. She is my world, and I know she is proud of me.

Tooth-fairy nights were always filled with expectation at our house. One such night, our daughter informed us that her loose tooth had finally __ .

“How exciting,” we told her. “Put it under your pillow____the tooth fairy will visit you tonight.”

“Okay,” our daughter agreed, carefully guarding her newly acquired prized____in a loose fist.

We reminded ourselves to check for her tooth once our____was over. However, when the film was over we ___forgot.

The next mooning, we were awakened by cries of____from our daughter’s room.“Mommty! Daddy! Come and see what the tooth fairy brought me!”

Astonished, my husband and I exchanged____glances. Quickly,   we____our way to our daughter’s room and found her sitting quietly on her bed,___out the window at a___.Her eyes shone with pure___.

As she was absorbed in the rainbow, I____under her pillow to “check for any other____that she may have overlooked.”

“Are you sure you felt all around when____your prize? ”I asked, and we watched as she carefully explored underneath her pillow.

“Wow! Two prizes! ” she said, proudly waving the dollar bill. “She must have overlooked during her first treasure ___ ."