2 . Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her job was to go to the post office every day and pick up the company mail. One day in December, she noticed a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus _______on the corner of the street. Each day she saved her coins and _______ them in his bowl. He would smile and _______ her a Merry Christmas.

At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Claus still stood in the cold wind. After she dropped her coins into his bowl. she handed him a pair of gloves.

A week later, a(n)_______Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very sick today.” She prayed for his health.

Later that day, a colleague came into her office in_______. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex-husband,” her _______ continued. “I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for _______, but my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It_______ my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady comforted her colleague. “I’m sure everything will _______. It’s Christmas. Believe in________.”

That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s________. “I know we don’t have much money to help, but I’d like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We’ll just get ourselves________ this year. Last year we couldn’t afford to buy anything for ourselves but we________ had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled. “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”

She reached up and held him.________ spread through her body. He held her and ________ that there really was a Santa Claus — and he had married her!