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My Father's Son
It's hard being an astronaut's son. Everybody expects you to be  1  . I'm just an average eleven-year-old
kid. My father is so good at everything. I often wonder  2  my father ever had a son like me.
One morning my teacher announced a  3  Day essay contest (竞赛) for the whole school. What would
I  4  ? My father is an astronaut; I would start out with that. No, I decided I wouldn't do that. The whole
country and maybe even the whole  5  saw my father as an astronaut,  6  that wasn't the way I saw him.
How did I  7  my father? Hmm.
I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I was little and had a nightmare.
I saw him teaching me how to throw a baseball.
I remembered him hugging me for hours when my dog was killed by a car.
And I remembered how he  8  me with a new little dog at my eighth birthday party.
These were the things I was going to write about my dad. To me, he wasn't  9  a world-famous astronaut.
He was my dad.
On Thursday night the winning essays would be 10 in the hall with all the parents and students present. I
hadn't shown Dad the essay, and now I almost 11 I wouldn't win. When the third prize was announced and it
wasn't me. I was 12 and disappointed at the same time. Then the second prize. It was me! I went up to the
stage and read my essay "My Father's Son". I watched my parents as I read.
When I finished reading, the audience applauded. I saw my father 13 his nose. Tears were running down
my mother's face. Dad cleared his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder, "Son, this is the proudest moment
of my life."
It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I'll 14 be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just
then, it was 15 just to be my father's son.

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