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| I was fifteen months old, a happy carefree kid until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a glass rabbit, __1__ cut my eye badly enough to blind it. Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched(缝上) the eyeball together where it was cut, __2__ a big ugly scar in the middle of my eye. And as I grew, this __3__ eye in so many ways controlled me. I walked with my face looking at the __4__ so people would not see the ugly me. Sometimes people, even strangers, asked me__5__questions or made hurtful remarks. When the kids played games, I was always the "__6__". Yet Mama would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world. If you hold your head up high, people will see your beautiful __7__." Those words have meant __8__ things to me over the years. As a little child, I thought Mama meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or __9__ something because you are not looking." As an adolescent, I found that sometimes when I held my head up high and let people 10 me, they liked me. My mama's words helped me begin to 11 that by letting people look at my face, I let them recognize the intelligence and beauty 12 both eyes. In high school I was 13 both academically and socially. I was even elected class president, 14 , all I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would 15 to my mama and she would look at me with 16 eyes and say, "Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside." When I met the man who became my 17 for life, we looked each other straight in the eye, and he told me I was beautiful inside and out. He 18 it. My mama's love and 19 were the spark that gave me the confidence to 20 my own doubt. | ||||
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