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I was fifteen months old, a happy kid until the day I fell.It was a__1__fall.I landed on a glass rabbit
which cut my eye badly enough to make it blind.Trying to save the eye, the doctors stitched (缝合) the
eyeball together where it was__2__, leaving a big ugly scar (疤痕) in the middle of my eye.The attempt
__3__, but my mother, in all of her wisdom, found another doctor who knew that if the eye were
removed__4__, my face would grow up badly distorted (扭曲), __5__my scarred, sightless, cloudy
and grayeye lived on with me.As I grew, this sightless eye in so many ways__6__me.
I walked with my face looking at the__7__so that people would not see the__8__me.Yet my mother
would say to me, at every turn, "Hold your head up high and__9__the world.If you hold your head up
high, it will be OK, and people will see your__10__soul." She continued this__11__whenever I was
trying to hide.
Mama's words were of great help for me to face the world__12__.As a teenager, even though I
tended to look down to hide my shame, I found that sometime when I held my head up high and let
people know me, they__13__me.In high school, I was__14__both academically  and socially.I was
__15__elected class president.My mother's words helped me begin to realize that by letting people
look at my face, I let them__16__the intelligence and beauty behind both eyes, even if they couldn't
see it on the__17__.
Now I'm a happy wife and great mother.The message "Hold your head up high" has been__18__
many times in my__19__home.Each of my children has felt__20__invitation, and the gift my mother
gave me has lived on in another generation.

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