1 . At my daughter’s presentation ceremony, the principal reminded the kids of that now-familiar truth: they could have multiple careers in their lifetimes. As I lay in bed that evening, another truth ________ me that it is not just different careers that________each child.

I________my own life and how much it has ________. Five years age, I was in an unhappy marriage, living in a house that I felt wasn’t mine. I felt________most of the time and not________my own future. Now, I live in my own beautiful apartment. My family life is peaceful, filled with ________. My life is barely________. I created a whole new reality.

I have always________ that great change is possible. I am the great-grandchild of the immigrants who left their countries with few________. From the shtetls(犹太人小村庄) of Russia and Poland, they created their own communities.

My parents moved to a ________city with two small children and started a life different from that in their hometown. And my late grandmother lived two completely different lives. ________she was a widow at 43 after my grandfather died suddenly, she ________her daughters alone, cared for her elderly mother and ________travelled out of her hometown. At 68, after being single for 26 years, she ________us all by falling in love and remarrying. She and her husband, Harry, socialized   ________ , and travelled around the country.

Life is full of ________. We assume that our lives are linear(直线的), leading us from birth to death into a straight ________. But they can change and have sharp ________. They can double back and leap forward and begin another ________altogether.