When Mark was five years old, his parents separated and he stayed with his mother.
As Mark grew up he occasionally (偶尔地) thought of the brief time he shared with his father and longed to see him again one day. However, as he grew into his late teens, thoughts of his father began to fade away.
After he graduated from college, Mark got married and one year later, had a boy. The years passed.
One day when Mark’s son was five years old and as Mark was preparing to shave his face, his son looked up at him and laughed, “Daddy, you look like a clown (小丑) with that cream on your face.”
Mark laughed, looked into the mirror and realized how much his son looked like him at that age. Later, he remembered that his mother said he had told his own father the same thing.
This event started him thinking about his own father a lot and he began asking his mother. It had been a long time since Mark had spoken of his father and his mother told him that it was now over twenty years since she had spoken to him. In addition, all her knowledge of his father stopped when Mark became eighteen.
Mark looked deep into his mother’s eyes and said, “I need to find my father.” His mother then told him that his dad’s relatives had all passed away, and she had no idea where to begin searching for him but added, “Maybe, just maybe, if you contact the United States Embassy in England, they might be able to help you.”
Even though the chances seemed slim, Mark was determined. The very next day, he made an overseas call to the American Embassy.
“U.S. Embassy, how may we help you?”
“Ahh...hi, my name is Mark Sullivan and I am hoping to find my father.”
There was a long pause and the ruffing of some papers,’ and then the man said:
“Is this Mr. Mark Joseph Sullivan?”
“Yes,” Mark answered anxiously.
They checked the birth place and date.
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Mark then overheard the man as he made an excited announcement to his coworkers.
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The following day, Mark received a phone call from his overjoyed father.
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My dad was a cleaner in my school. When I was 12, I decided to study hard to have a life different from his.
One day when Dad asked me to play basketball with him, I just replied, “I’m busy. I want to study well so that I can become a rich man. I don’t want to be a cleaner like you, Dad!” He was shocked (震惊的), but I didn’t care and continued studying hard. Finally, I graduated from high school with honors, and decided it was time to break free from my dad and follow my dreams.
“Dad, I got a scholarship to a law school in California,” I told him. “I’ll leave in 3 days.” My dad was surprised but proud of me. As I left for the airport 3 days later, he said, “Son, wherever you go, welcome back home.” I ignored his words and flew to California.
After I graduated, I found a great job there. Later, I was made manager and earned much money. I no longer remembered my father was a cleaner. I had forgotten my dad, who was still cleaning my school. I seldom answered his calls or wrote back to him. I was busy; I still had a lot more to achieve.
With time, the more success I tasted, somehow, the lonelier I became. I felt especially lonely on my 31st birthday. I kept checking my phone, hoping someone wished me a happy birthday. But there wasn’t a single call or message. Later that evening when I returned home from my office, something in my mailbox drew my attention.
“A letter?” I whispered and saw it was from my father. He never forgot to mail me a letter on my each birthday. However, I never took the trouble to read it. “How did I ignore him?” I thought. I brought the letter home and took out his earlier letters. And I opened one. It read, “Wherever you are, I love you to the last drop of my blood. I wish you a happy life.”
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I picked up another letter and read it.
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______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Sam was stubborn and liked to do things his own way. He liked to eat his meals one food at a time-no mixing. He wore his purple socks on Tuesdays and his lucky sweater whenever he had a spelling test.
Oscar was Sam’s father. He liked to do things, his own way, too. While the neighbors mowed(割草) their lawns, Oscar grew a wildflower meadow(草场). He got a haircut on the first Thursday of every month, whether he needed it or not. And he wore his lucky sweater to every one of Sam’s ball games.
Sam thought his dad was the smartest man on earth, and his dad thought Sam was the finest son a man could ever want... until the day they decided to build the tree house.
Sam had a picture in his mind.
Oscar had a picture in his mind.
The pictures didn’t match.
At the store, they disagreed on how much wood to buy. They argued about how long the nails should be. They quarreled about what color paint they should pick. And when they got home, they argued and ARGUED and ARGUED about which tree was best.
Sam wanted the maple. He wouldn’t give in.
His dad wanted the hackberry. He wouldn’t give in, either.
The boards and the nails and the paint sat in the backyard. They sat there in the hot, summer sunshine. They sat there when the autumn leaves fell. They sat under a blanket of snow all winter.
“Sam is so stubborn,” Oscar complained to Sam’s mother, “If he’d listen to reason, I could show him why the hackberry is best.“
“Why won’t Dad listen to my ideas?” Sam asked his mom.
Sam’s mother tried talking to Sam’s dad. He wouldn’t listen.
She tried talking to Sam. It did no good.
Spring came. The wildflower meadow began to bloom, and baseball practice started. Soon it was Mother's Day, and Sam made his mother a clay pot and filled it with flowers. She loved it.
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Now Father’s Day was coming up.
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“Oh no! I like this,“ said his dad.
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A Lesson from My Sister
My parents worked very hard at ensuring that everything seemed pleasant for me and I mostly ignored the fact that my elder sister was different. The child psychologist had termed it as “Asperger Syndrome”(阿斯伯格综合症，一种自闭障碍).This diagnosis turned my parents world upside down-but they never let it affect me.
It was only at the age of ten that I started to notice the differences, and become conscious of my social life and self-image that I had carefully cultivated. My sister was socially awkward. She could not look at people in the eye. She would mumble(嘟哝)to herself and repeat the words she had just said under her breath. She, however, was academically capable, and hence we attended the same primary school. Despite this, I never, ever acknowledged in public that she was my sister. There was one incident, however, just two years ago, that remains imprinted in my consciousness. It was the incident that changed how I viewed my sister. It was the incident that changed me.
Being in primary six, about to graduate, my sister and her classmates had to put up a performance, whether in a group，or individually. Due to her inability to integrate(融入)，my sister was the only one left without a group. The school had made it a rule for everyone to put up an item, so my sister had to perform individually. ”I’ll sing.” my sister told my parents, confidently. Hearing that, I was taken aback and completely shocked. I knew she would embarrass me, one way or another. “No!” I protested. My parents shot me a look and that was when I knew my sister was going to perform, no matter what. Silently, I prayed that something would happen and I would not have to watch my sister shame herself.
That day came. I sat in the hall，waiting for the performances to start. The lights dimmed(变昏暗) a minute or two later and the curtains parted to reveal the only solo-my sister. She blinked(眨眼)a couple of times, as if the lights shining on her were hurting her eyes.
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It took about a whole minute for her to stammer(口吃，结巴地说)her name and class.
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How did I not know that my sister could sing so sweetly?
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There was an eight-year-old girl. One day, while returning from school with her mum, she saw a wonderful Barbie doll, on the shelf of a toy shop. The Barbie was designed and packed perfectly. She insisted her mum to buy it, but her mum was having a cash shortage and 50 dollar for the doll was a bit too much to afford as her husband was separated and all she was using was her savings to live their life.
Now each day after her school while coming back with her mum the girl cried for that toy and all her mum could say was next month. Days passed and this continued. Mum got fed up and slapped her daughter for the first time to force her to forget about that toy, and then promised a better one (obviously low cost). However, the kid was very stubborn. She wanted that only.
It was the month of winter when her mum found a job which she could do at home at night after making her daughter sleep. Finally she could have extra money, now she was a bit relaxed. On a Monday afternoon, she went to pick up her daughter as usual, but this time she didn’t go alone. She bought the Barbie toy for her. The kid was glad to see that, excitedly hugging her mum. She was in joy.
Each day the kid played with her doll, making her bath, combing her hair, and making her put on fancy dress. Days passed, and now she was one year older. The Barbie was not as that important. While playing, she grabbed the hair, broke her one hand, etc. Gradually she got bored and the Barbie toy was dumped somewhere unknown.
Years later, she got married. And one day, she came to visit her old mum.
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She looked around her room where she grew up and suddenly she noticed her old toy box.
She took the Barbie back her home.
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Once across the river and into the business district, Carrie glanced about her for some likely door which to apply.
As she contemplated(打量) the wide window and imposing signs, she became conscious of being gazed upon and understood for what she was——a wage-seeker. To avoid a certain indefinable shame she felt at being caught spying about for some place where he might apply for a position, she quickened her steps and assumed an air of indifference supposedly common to one upon an errand.
A little way on Carrie saw a great door which, for some reason, attracted her attention. It was ornamented by small brass sign, and seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or seven floors. “Perhaps, ” she thought, “they may want someone” and crossed over to enter, summoning up her courage as she went.
When she came within a score of feet of the desired goal, Carrie observed a young gentleman in a gray clerk suit, fumbling his watch- chain and looking out. That he had anything to do with the concern she could not tell, but because he happened to be looking in her direction, her weakening heart penetrated her and she hurried by, too overcome with shame to enter in. After several blocks of walking, in which the uproar of the streets and the novelty of the situation had time to wear away the effect of her first defeat, she again looked about. Over the way stood a great six- story structure labeled “Storm and King”, which she viewed with rising hope. It was a wholesale dry goods concern and employed women.
Carrie could see them moving about now and then upon the upper floors. This place she decided to enter, no matter what. She crossed over and walked directly toward the entrance. As she did so two men came out and paused in the door. A telegraph messenger in blue dashed past her and up the few steps which graced the entrance and disappeared. Several pedestrians(行人)out of the hurrying throng which filled the sidewalks passed about her as she paused, hesitating. She looked helplessly around and then, seeing herself observed, retreated. It was too difficult a task. She could not go past them.
So severe a defeat told sadly upon her nerves. Her feet carried her mechanically forward, every foot of her progress being a satisfactory portion of a fight which she gladly made. Block after block passed by. The morning sun shining down with steadily increasing warmth made the shady side of the streets pleasantly cool. She looked at the blue sky overhead with more realization of its charm than had ever come to her before.
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Her cowardice began to trouble her in a way.
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“Well, young lady”, observed the old gentleman, looking at her somewhat kindly.
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I was adopted by a kind-hearted couple is a baby, who were pleased to take me into their home. As for me, they were not only my parents , but also my best friends. As I grew up day by day, I learned that my birth mother abandon me because she wasn’t able to care for me. I understood and was grateful. After all, I ended up with two caring people who loved each other very much and also loved me.
l even thought I was the happiest and luckiest girl in the world. Every day as I kissed my mom goodbye, I said “I love you, Mom. See hu tomorrow.“
However, something unpleasant happened lo me al the age of 9. My parents adopted a boy named Harty, for which I didn’t figure out the season. My father explained later that they didn’t manage to have any children of their own, for gov mom had diabetes (糖尿病). Considering my mom’s eagerness for raising children, they decided to adopt me and Harry.
Harry was very naughty. Sometimes be grabbed my schoolbag for a cartoon without permission, hid my shoes when I hurried to leave for school, and even often played tricks on me. To be frank, I didn’t like this new member quite much. How I wish I were the only child!
When I was 14, everything changed. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in a regular medical examination. Soon she suffered greater and greater pain. The strike on my family was unbelievable. My mom had to accept treatment in the hospital, while my father took a part-time job after work to cover the high expense and make ends meet in our family.
At home, taking care of my 8-year-old brother became my job. What was more, the chores such as doing the laundry, cleaning the house; and cooking meals were all mine.
At first, I didn’t think it was fair and I became upset.
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Then one day, my father brought me to my mom’s bed in the hospital.
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After that, I realized I also needed to play my part in our family.
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