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| Laughter and tears are part of living. But do you find enough time for laughter? I am not asking if you__1__lots of good times. __2__we should laugh during the happy times. But do you also laugh during the__3__times? Erma Bombeck is known for her humorous books, but she wrote one that__4__a more serious topic:__5__in children. Erma talks with many children with cancer and learns__6__life lessons from them. She learns, for instance, that cancer survivors know how to__7__. She __8__the experience of 15yearold Jessica from Burlinton. Jessica's leg was cut off at the knee because of cancer. She was learning to__9__a prosthesis(假肢). Jessica tells about playing__10__. She kicked the ball__11__and it flew off in one__12__while her artificial leg flew into another. She fell on the__13__and laughed. Jessica may not have laughed about her cancer, but she laughed about handling the__14__of it. And her laughter helped her a deal. There is the story of 17yearold Betsy. She __15__her way to the radiation room for her regular radiation therapy(化疗). As __16__, she dropped her hospital gown and, wearing only her birthday suit, __17__onto the table and waited. The extra people in the room were not the medical students she had thought, but __18__painters giving an estimate on painting! Betsy laughed heartily about the incident. And like Jessica, her__19__to laugh helped her to deal with one of the most difficult thing a young person can endure-cancer. Do you find plenty of__20__for laughter? You can…if you also find reasons to laugh during the especially difficult times. Survivors know how to laugh. If you can laugh even when the going is rough, you'll make it. And you'll smile at the end. | ||||
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