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The future belongs to those who be lieve in the beauty of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt My home is a place of great beauty and agricultural richness, as well as of war and natural disasters. When I was only fourteen years old, I was filled with__1__in spite of the terrible surroundings.The families living here, who tried to make their living from the land, __2__great losses. I felt sorry especially for the__3__, but I__4__to be hopeless.I decided that where I was, I could do __5__to help them.I began knocking on every door and saying to each person who__6__my knock, "I know that you are__7__and give the birds that come to your yard a little__8__.Please consider me your bird.Give me only a handful of rice each week when I come to your__9__.I will take it to the temple where it can be given to the__10__children." No one seemed to__11__giving me a handful of rice, even__12__they had little themselves.On Sunday, I would go to the__13__and give my handfuls of rice to the monks to__14__to the children. One day, I came to a house that had__15__to give.I told my story and asked if I could be their bird. The woman called her daughters, and__16__gave me fifty cents, as well as the handful of rice!I began to ask for__17__and rice from the other "bird feeders", and they gave them to me.Everyone was happy to be helping those who were suffering, even__18__only this small way.The temple was soon able to help everyone who came to them for food and clothing. " Consider me your bird." My__19__idea had not stopped the war, but anyway, it was__20__some peace. | ||||
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