Ellison, the owner of a bar（酒吧）, received a phone call from a lady, saying she had lost her wallet in his bar. She added that she didn’t care about the money, but the _________ her husband bought her.

Ellison spent hours watching _________. Then he noticed a boy had done this wrong thing. Ellison _________ a notice on his bar’s website: “I just want to ask if anyone knows _________ the boy is.”

Within hours, Ellison received a message. It was from 16-year-old Chris. He told Ellison that he had taken the wallet because he had _________ for two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake（假的）, so he took the money and threw the wallet into the _________. Then he bought a sandwich.

Ellison was unsure whether he believed Chris and told the boy to meet him at the port（港口）. There, they started _________. Chris said that he wasn’t getting along with his family and had been _________ in the woods for a week. Ellison, a father of two, watched Chris _________ a small body and a red face and saw him for what he was: more a kid than a criminal.

But because the police were already on the case, Chris __________ be put into prison（监狱）. “If the ring could be found and returned to the owner, she might drop the charges（起诉）against Christ.” So Ellison paid two professional divers to search the waters where Chris had thrown the wallet. In the end, the ring was __________ under the sea.

When Ellison called the owner of the wallet, she burst into tears. After hearing the whole story, __________ decided to drop the charges and permit（允许）the boy to have the $200.

Ellison had been __________ about Chris living in the cold woods, so he gave Chris a place to live for a while in his house. He also gave the boy a job at his __________. “Most people would have given the video to the police, __________ he chose to help me,” Chris said, “I say ‘thank you’ to him every day.”

【推荐2】I was having lunch at a restaurant when a pretty girl walked in and sat down at a table waiting for her friend. It didn’t _________ long before I saw she was trying to stay hidden from other people’s stares and my _________ sank.

You could see her hair was falling out and, at such a young age, she was receiving chemo (化疗). I ached for her, imagining what it must be like to go through this. I needed to send a _________ of hope to this girl. But _________?

Then I had a good idea! I called over her waitress and explained that I wanted to buy the girl and her friend’s _________ but that she couldn’t tell her it was me. I _________ her a note to give to the girl. The note _________ as follows:

“Someone today thought you were beautiful, someone today thought your eyes lit up the world, someone today cared and wanted you to know this. _________ the rest of your day, pretty young lady.”

About 15 minutes later the young girl asked for her _________. As she was told it was paid for, she looked puzzled and asked who and why. The waitress __________ handed her the note and informed her that the gentleman who had done it had left, so as to keep me secret.

I watched as she __________ read the note. Tears welled up in her eyes, for only a moment, and then came the smile! A huge, beautiful, __________ smile! She lit up the room and then sat up straight, not caring who saw her. Her __________ also smiled, not for what was done but __________ her friend was feeling beautiful again.

It’s not how we look or what we have, __________ is it how much money we can earn. It’s all about how much we care and what we do, even if it’s making someone feel pretty only for a moment.

Yes, lunch cost only a few dollars but you see the wonderful part, the magic was free.