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When I was a young boy, my favorite thing was a toy gun. Sometimes I would shoot bullets (发射子弹) for practice. One day, I walked into the _________ with my gun. I _________ a John Wayne movie where he preferred shooting the gun with one hand. As I was _________ what he did, I heard a pop (爆裂声). I hadn’t _________ the bullets when I practiced shooting the day before. I watched nervously as the bullet parted the hair of my dad who was _________ on the sofa. One and a half inches (英寸) lower, it would have shot him in the head. My dad woke up and saw what happened. He _________ took my toy gun, walked out and broke it on the stone. I wouldn’t have another toy gun for a long time _________ that and when I did, I refused to put bullets in it.

_________ troubled me most, though, was seeing the anger in my dad’s eyes. I hid in my room for the rest of the day not _________ to face him. I __________ that he didn’t love me any longer. At dinnertime he walked into the room and put his hand on my head. “It’s OK, Joey,” he said, “I forgive you. Now come and eat.” I felt so __________ at that moment. I felt loved once again.

In the years that followed, I __________ my dad more than once. I was a __________ learner and suffered (遭受苦难) a lot. I cried and struggled (挣扎), __________ I always felt loved. No matter how badly I did, my father loved me and never __________. He was always helping me to become better and kinder.