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few houses were washed away, 1 Elizabeth's house was high enough to escape it. Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost 2 .She shared her home until the family could 3 another house. Elizabeth's friends could not understand 4 she wanted to give so much when she already had so many children to support. "Well," Elizabeth 5 to her friends, "at the end of the World War I, there was a 6 woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of 7 , just like me now. " "The day before Christmas," this woman said to her children, "we won't be able to have much for Christmas. I'm going to get just one 8 for us all. Now I'll go and get it." She came back 9 a little girl who had no parents. "Here's our present," she said to her own children. "The children were very 10 to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present. " |