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A father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was happy when he saw the sky _______ with colorful kites. He wanted to fly a kite, too. The father then bought a kite for his son.

The son started to fly the kite. Soon, his kite was high up in the sky. After a while, the son said, “Father, it seems that the string is _______ the kite from flying higher. If we cut it, it will be free and fly even _______. Can we cut it?” The father cut the string off of the reel (线轴). The kite started to go higher. This made the little boy _______.

But then, slowly, the kite started to _______. It soon fell to the ground. The son was surprised to see this. He asked his father, “I thought that _______ cutting the string, the kite would fly higher. _______ did it fall down?”

The father explained, “The string was not stopping the kite from going higher, but was helping it _______ in the sky. You helped the kite go up in the right _______ using the string. But when you cut the string, it could no longer support the kite.”

We may sometimes feel like there are certain things that are holding us back and stopping us from growing. But ________, these might be the things that support us the most.