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My son Joey was born with club (畸形) feet. The doctors told us that with treatment he would be
able to walk
1 -but would never run very well. The first three years of his
2 were spent in surgery.
By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him
3 .
The children in our
4 ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in
and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be
5 to run as well as the other
children .So he didn't know.
In seventh grade he
6 to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team.
He worked harder and ran
7 than any of the others - perhaps he
8 that the abilities that seemed to
come naturally to so many others did not come
9 to him. Although the entire team runs, only the
10
seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would
never make the team, so he didn't know.
He
11 to run four to five miles a day, every day -even the day he had a fever. I was
12 , so I went
to look for him after school. I found him running alone. I asked him how he felt. "
13 ", he said. He
had two more miles to go. The
14 ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever.
15 he
looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he
16 run four miles with a fever. So he
didn't know.
Two weeks later, the
17 of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey
had made the team. He was in seventh grade- the
18 six team members were all eighth-graders. We
never told him he shouldn't
19 to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. We never told
him he couldn't do all those things. So he didn't know. He
20 did it.
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