Stoney’s Family Restaurant is a popular breakfast restaurant. But now it is known for acts of _________. That’s because the restaurant puts up a Giving Board that lets people pay for part or all of meals for _________ who just need a little help.

Cashier Ruby Evans thought of the idea _________ she realized that there were some poor people in the community. They often have little food or money. She explained, “Their poor life makes me very _________ and I start to think about how I can help. And I believe many others are also _________ to give a helping hand.”

With the owner’s agreement, Evans put up the board _________ the end of February 2022. Most people started _________ the lunch—a glass of milk, a box of biscuits, and others would give $5. Evans said they want to keep the process very _________. If people have extra things to give, they can just put them on a table and if someone _________ something, he can take it away directly.

The restaurant has lots of donations but getting customers to __________ the donations is harder. “A lot of poor people are really shamed, and I’m saying, ‘that’s what it’s there for! Just take it’,” Evans said. She even went outside to __________ people to make use of the Giving Board and to pass the __________ around.

As people spread the news, the act caught much __________, and Evans got __________ from other business owners. “We’re getting ready to start __________ jackets and things like that, so families can come in and get a blanket or a coat,” said Alexia Dodson who owns a second-hand store next to the restaurant.

Kindness can become a habit. Your small efforts most likely change another person’s life.

It was about 12 feet from the top of the waterfall to the pool below, in which there were a lot of huge rocks. My son Wyatt had fallen on his ________ straight onto the rocks. That is what Lisa told us.

We didn’t know her name was Lisa at that point. All we knew was that while everyone else ________ from a distance, too afraid or indifferent to help, this small and thin lady with a mask (口罩) rushed down towards Wyatt without thinking ________. In fact, by the time I had climbed down the rocks and my husband had ________ Wyatt out of the water, she had already called 911. She requested us to keep him still on his back ________ his spinal cord (脊髓) was injured.

Finally, I realized that I even didn’t know her name. “Lisa,” she told me, “And I’m not leaving you.” She looked at me so deeply as if she were trying to take every bit of ________ love and strength in her body and push it out through the only part of her face I could see. I ________ that energy like a rope that could pull us to safety, to some other places where my son wasn’t hurting.

The rescue team came. An ambulance took us to a local hospital where they examined him. A(n) ________ night in the hospital. But by morning, to our ________ a doctor told us that he had ________ three bones in the chest, luckily, Wyatt was out of danger.

As soon as I knew that Wyatt was going to be okay, my ________ fell to Lisa. If she had not ________, would someone else have done so? Perhaps, but it was her. She was the one who went towards the unthinkable instead of ________.

Meeting Lisa reminded me how I ________ connections with people I do not know. I need to feel that we are not ________ in the world. If we stop connecting with those we don’t know, where are we as people? As a society? No man is an island.