I will always love my mother. During the last four years of her life, Mom fought a brave but ________ battle against cancer. During that time she lost her health, her hair, and 40 pounds. She was in and out of the hospital more times than I could count. In the end as her life’s ________ faded away, we all ________ at her bedside and said goodbye. She was only 55 years old.

For a long while after her death, I was depressed and ________ with God. My own health ________ and I caught double pneumonia. ________ my body healed and my heart as well. It was the love of my children that ________ pulled me out of my despair and helped me to begin to live again. ________, I continued to ask God why my Mom had to die so young.

Only years later I began to ________ clearly what Mom had done in those last four years of her life. ________ cancer was beating her body, it certainly wasn’t beating her soul. Mom lived as she had ________ lived before. Even with cancer she worked outside our home and ________ the lives of her co-workers with her gentle, humor and kind spirit. She reconnected with old friends she hadn’t seen in years and made ________ memories with each one of them. She and my Dad ________ closer than I had ever seem them before. There was a ________ and a tenderness between them that moved us all. During her time with us, she ________ our souls with her love and she helped us to grow ________ enough to go on without her.

In her last four years Mom ________ her mission her. She showed us how to love God. She showed us how to meet death. She showed us that fear always flees in the face of ________. She showed us that to live life is to love life, no matter how much pain you have and no matter how much time you have ________. Thanks Mom! I will always love you.

In seventh grade, my mum suggested I join the golf (高尔夫) team. ________ I had been taking golf lessons since I could walk, I had never played nine real holes of golf. And she ________ me to join a league (联盟)? I was sure she had lost her ________. But as always, my mother ________. I played on the middle-school golf team in seventh grade… and eighth. When the summer before high school came, I was ________ to play on the high school team.

At a time when most teenagers try to spend the smallest amount of time with their ________, I was growing closer to mine. That summer I ________ almost every Sunday morning on the golf course with my ________, and too many afternoons there with my mum. This close ________ with my parents continued during my high-school years. My mum and I talked about things in the middle of a round of golf that we would ________ do at home, where she is Mum and I am an annoying teenager. On the golf course, we’re just two people who ________ golf.

Golfing has ________ a part of me over the past years. My friends know in the summer the place to find me is on the golf course. Golf has ________ me and made me into the person I am today. And I have to ________ that all of it is thanks to my mum making me join that middle school golf league. I guess she was ________ -as usual.

At an airport I overheard(无意听到） a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane’s ______ and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, “I love you; I wish you enough.”

She said, “Daddy, our ______ together has been more than enough. Your love is ______ I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.

He walked over ______ the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to ______. I tried not to interfere（干涉） his ______, but he welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone ______ it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied.

Saying that brought back ______ I had of expressing my love and ______ for all my Dad had done for me. Recognizing that his days were ______, I took the time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me. So I knew what this man was ______. When I asked why it was a forever good-bye, he said he was ______ and her daughter lived much too far away. He guessed this departure might be the ______ before his funeral. When I asked him why they said “I wish you enough”, he explained that had been ______ from other generations. His parents used to say it to ______, by which they wanted other people to have a life filled with enough ______ things to support them.

“I wish you enough sun to ______ your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit ______. I wish you enough pain ______ the smallest joys in life appear much bigger. I wish you enough gains to ______ your wanting. I wish you enough “Hellos” to get you through the final ‘Good-bye’.”