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I was cleaning out an old box when an old card caught my eye: Queen City Casket Company. "What is it?" I wondered. I _______ it over. There, in faded ink, was a hand-scrawled(手写的) _______. immediately my mind traveled back many years.

I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag of magazines on my shoulder. On my _______ that day, I came to that Company finally, whose owner, Mr. Rader, has always taken me there to ask his workers _______ they wanted any magazines.

Shaking off the _______ like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader's office. After a quick glance, he _______ me over to the fire-place. Noticing the _______ in the top of my _______, he said, "Come with me!" pulling me into his pickup truck. We pulled to a stop before a shoe store. Inside, a salesman _______ me with the finest pair of oxfords I had ever seen. I ________ about 10 feet tall when I got up ________ them. "We'd like a pair of new socks too," Mr. Rader said.

Back in his office, Mr. Rader took out a ________, wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With tearful eyes, I read, "Do to ________ as you would have them do to you." He said affectionately(深情地), "Jimmy, I want you to know I love you."

I said good-bye, and for the first time I ________ a flicker(闪光) of hope that somehow things would be all right. With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, kindness and love, and that would always make a ________.