A little girl, named Starry, was playing outside her grandmother's apartment building. Her mom, Marina, kept an eye on the ________ from a window. At about 4 pm, Starry walked around the corner of the building to get her bike and ________.

“I took my eyes ________ her for five minutes, and she was gone,” says Marina. “I knew something was ________,” she adds, ________ when she saw that Starry's bike was ________ here and found an old credit card her daughter had been playing with abandoned near the bike. Marina called 911.

Policemen came soon, blocking off streets and ________ the neighborhood. Officers handed out a photo of the blond (金发) girl. Many people joined in. Temar Boggs, 15, was with some friends helping his elderly neighbor when one searcher approached them and asked if they'd seen the girl. __________ the boys, none of them had seen her. Temar was approached with a photo of Starry. “I felt that I was going to find her,” he says. He borrowed a bike from a friend and sped away. The boy searched without a plan, __________ keeping a sharp eye out as he rode on.

Then Temar __________ a car driving down a side street and turning back, __________ the driver was unfamiliar with the neighborhood. He followed it. The car pulled an __________ U-turn at the top of a hill—a group of policemen had gathered there.

The car passed the boy as it circled back down the hill. Temar made eye contact (接触) with the man behind the wheel, and spied a tiny blond girl in the passenger seat. Temar __________ knew “it was her, for sure.” The boy __________ fast after the car, but the driver kept moving, slowly winding his way through the neighborhood. Finally, the driver pulled the car to the street side a few hundred feet ahead of him and pushed open the passenger-side door. Starry __________ out of the car. The kidnapper (绑架者) sped away but was caught by the police the next day.

We adopted Luke four years ago. The people from the orphanage dropped him off at our hotel room without even saying ______. He was nearly six years old, only 28 pounds and his face was crisscrossed(交叉着)with scars.______, he was terrified. Luke kicked and ______. His cries were animal-like. I wound my arms around him ______ he could not hit or kick. After an hour and a half, he finally fell asleep, exhausted. I called ______. They delivered every noodle dish on the menu. After Luke woke up, I handed him chopsticks and pointed at the food. He stopped crying and started to eat.

That night we went for a walk.______ at the moon, he pantomimed(打手势), “What is it?” I said, “The moon, it’s the moon.” He ______ and tried to touch it. He cried again when I tried to give him a bath ______ I started to play with the water. By the end of his bath the room was soaked, and he was ______. Then we read the book One Yellow Lion. He loved looking at the ______ pictures and ______ the pages. By the end of the ______ he was saying “one yellow lion”

The next day we ______ orphanage officials to do ______. Luke looked at them and wrapped my arms ______ around his waist.

It has been four years. Luke is a smart, funny, happy fourth-grader. He is ______ with charm and is a natural athlete. His teachers say he is ______ behaved and works very hard. Our neighbor says she has never seen a happier kid.

When I think back, I am ______ at what transformed this ill-tempered, terrified little creature. It was not medications. It did not cost money. It was love: just simple, plain, easy to ______. It is comprised of compassion, care, security, and a leap of faith. I believe in the power of love to ______. I believe in the power of love to heal.

Jasen was diagnosed with a type of cancer. Despite going through several treatments, there was no saving his _______, and by age 7, Jasen was completely blind. Today, the only thing he can_______ is whether it is daytime or nighttime. _______, despite growing up blind, Jasen never hesitated in following his dreams, no matter how _______ they may have seemed. And it was this_______ that won him the role of quarterback on a local football team.

The 15-year-old grew up following the sport of football at least three times a week, attending local games with his father, who would _______ the action going down on the field. He fell in love with the sport and knew that he wanted to give it a_______ himself. When his parents _______ him an iPhone, he started _______ all the football teams in the area to see if they would accept him.

Nichols, coach of him, ________ that the first time after seeing the boy play, he realized that the kid "could do anything". What Jasen lacks in vision, he ________ in spatial (空间的) awareness and memory, knowing ________ where his teammates are supposed to be, and throwing the ball with accuracy.

In order to ________ his team and play his role on the court, Jasen always ________ every play and all the positions his ________ should be in when he throws the ball.

"Just seeing him, he ________ me there's nothing you can't do, and that ________the other kids .Ever since he joined my team, the team have ________ around him", coach Nichols said. "It ________their attitude to life. He makes the season. Even if we don't win, just having that chemistry with the team has probably been one of the ________ things."