【推荐2】There was once a company in the United States which would offer a lot of money to anyone who could find a white marigold （金盏花）. It is known that most marigolds are either golden or brown, so it is very hard to find a white one.

Twenty years later, the company received a letter from an old woman. She sent 100 white marigold seeds（种子）along with the letter.

The woman was a fan of flowers. When she first heard the company’s news 20 years ago, she got very excited. She thought she could grow her own white marigolds. But her children doubted her. Because she knew nothing about seed genetics（遗传学）after all. So her dream of growing white marigolds was just a dream.

Still, she worked to make it happen. She planted some common marigold seeds and took good care of them. A year later, when the marigolds bloomed, she took the seeds and planted them. Then she waited another year for them to bloom.

Day after day, year after year, through many seasons, her life changed. After her husband died, her children moved away, and many other things happened, but her love to grow white marigolds remained strong in her heart.

Finally, after 20 years, she went out to her garden and found a marigold—it was as white as snow.

Devon Gallagher，a college graduate from Philadelphia，wants the world to know exactly where she's been during her worldwide vacation in a special way．

The traveler，who was born with a congenital bone disease（先天性骨病），lost her right leg at the age of four． Although she had a hard time at first， she now thinks that nothing can stop her living her best life．

To spread that message，Gallagher shares photos of her travels around the world online，and writes her location across her artificial leg （假肢）before taking a picture． Now she has been taking pictures across Europe，all with the well﹣known locations written on her artificial leg．

"I get a new leg every two years and I can choose the design（设计）on it．One day I had a sudden idea to get a chalkboard，" Gallagher said，"My mum and grandmother didn't like the idea，but my friends liked it and told me to go for it，so I did．"

Gallagher said people often stared when she was writing on her leg，but once she shared the photos，she received only positive feedback （正面的反馈）．"My leg hasn't stopped me doing anything I've wanted to do，and I've been able to keep up with my peers（同龄人）and lead a pretty great life．"

Gallagher shows us that you should never let anything stand in the way of your dreams．And if you run into difficulties，get creative with it—because if life gives you an artificial leg，make art．