2 . Draper, the owner of a second-hand bookstore, was sorting through a pile of old books when an envelope fell from one. Inside was an undated _______ and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was _______ it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper's eyes. These were a _______ woman's last words to her child. He had to _______ Bethany. “Whoever it is will _______ this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t _______ a letter like that.”

He supposed if the _______ ended up in his shop then Bethany was likely from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he _______ recognized the little girl's face. Even if she’d left the area, there might be someone in the town who would recognize the _______.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo ran the story of the ________ letter.

________, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a mother herself，was on Facebook about 10 miles away ________ a close friend messaged her to check out the ________. As she read her mother's ________, which she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be ________.

3 . When I was in elementary school, I enjoyed telling lies. That was a lot of _________. As I got older, my _________ continued. I enjoyed people’s reactions to my seemingly amazing life. But when I was 15, that all   _________. I met someone I really _________ , who put me on the path to honesty.

In my usual fashion, I told him lies just like telling other people. I made up _________ to get him to be more interested in me _________I wasn’t sure if the truth would be enough to make him want to continue working with me . But he knew me so well.

One day he told me ,”I can’t talk to you on the _________anymore because I can’t see your eyes, and so I am not sure when you are lying to me. “That _________shocked me, because I didn’t know he knew I had been lying to him, and he was willing to end our _________ for those lies. I __________ at that moment that I would never lie to him again. It was a __________ transition(转变)to make because I was used to exaggerating(夸大) experiences to get attention. But because of him, I made a deal with myself never to tell any lie again. __________, his trust in me was rebuilt.

That was how I learned the ________ of honesty. I felt more __________ when I told the truth. As Merlin said in a movie,”when a man lies, he murders some part of the world.” It is __________.