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Night after night, as was often the case, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the __1__, then kiss my forehead.
I don't remember when it first started __2__ me.But it did.Finally one night, I shouted out at her,
" Don't do that any more-your hands are too __3__!" She didn't say anything in reply.But never again did my mother __4__ my day with that familiar __5__ of her love.
With the years passing, my thoughts __6__ to that night, when I missed my mother's hands, missed her goodnight __7__ on my forehead.Sometimes the incident seemed very __8__, while sometimes far away.But always it was hidden in the back of my __9__.Now Mom is in her seventies, and those hands that I
__10__ thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my __11__.And now my own children are grown and gone.One thanksgiving Eve, __12__I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a __13__ hand
hesitantly run across my face to __14__ the hair from my forehead.Then a kiss, ever so __15__, touched my brow.
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night and my young voice __16__."Don't do that any more-your hands are too rough!" __17__, I caught Mom's hand in hand, saying how __18__ I was
for that night.I thought she'd remember, as I did.But Mom didn't know __19__ I was talking about.She
had forgotten, and forgiven long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new __20__for my gentle mother and her caring hands.And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
(     )1. A.place
(     )2. A.pleasing
(     )3. A.sweet
(     )4. A.take up
(     )5. A.expression
(     )6. A.remained
(     )7. A.story
(     )8. A.close
(     )9. A.brain
(     )10. A.once
(     )11. A.husband
(     )12. A.as
(     )13. A.rough
(     )14. A.tidy
(     )15. A.gently
(     )16. A.wept
(     )17. A.On time
(     )18. A.grateful
(     )19. A.where
(     )20. A.memory

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