1 . A depressed grandmother in Durham, England, has been surprised since receiving a mysterious greeting card.

______ suffering from dementia (痴呆) and depression, she is also ______, according to her granddaughter Melly. Every day without ______, the grandmother sits by the window at her home so she can ______ at passers-by.

Not much has ever come from the elderly woman’s daily life, ______ she received an unexpected holiday card in her ______. “To the lady who waves and smiles, with Christmas wishes,” ______ the card. “It’s nice to see you ______ and wave when I walk past your house. Please accept my small gift to give you another ______ to smile.”

Melly later published the ______ story on Twitter so she could wish the ______ woman a Merry Christmas and thank her for the note. “My grandmother is disabled and has dementia,” explained Melly in a tweet. “She ______ in her chair by the window all day, every day — just looking outside and normally feeling ______ as we all work during the day. When we went to see her today, someone had ______ this through the letter box.”

Since the story was posted on the Internet, it has been ______ thousands of times. Not only that, but Twitter users filled Melly’s mailbox with pictures of their ______ since she also mentioned ______ her grandmother loves animals.

“She’s been so ______ recently, feeling unhappy. I can’t put into words how much this has ______ her!” Melly wrote in several follow-up posts. “She’s ______ eaten for weeks because she’s been so down and I’ve just made her a sandwich and she’s happily enjoying it. I can’t wait to tell my grandmother how many people have wished her well.”