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I finished my last work of the week and could hardly wait to get home, take off my nursing shoes, and
relax.
As I_1_my car, I saw one of my_2_standing by the bus stop. I thought it would only take a couple of extra minutes to give her a ride home, and _3_, it was too cold to be standing outside on the coldest _4_ in January. I didn't know where she lived, but I was _5_ I would be able to find my way back.
We _6_ about our work as I drove and _7_ we knew it, we arrived at her house. I started driving back. _8_ looked familiar, but at first that didn't _9_ me. But soon I _10_ something wrong. I recognized nothing. But I told myself to stay _11_.
I was _12_ neighborhoods, streets and even streetlights. I no longer knew where I was now. How could I be so stupid! I looked down at my _13_. It was now 2:30 a.m. My gas was slowly running out. I _14_ the car and turned off the engine. In total defeat, I put my head down on the wheel, _15_. Then I raised my
head and saw a(n) _16_ down the road in front of me. I turned my headlights on. A car! I drove a little
_17_, got out of my car and knocked on the window of that car. An elderly man _18_ rolled his window
down.
I said that I didn't know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car
and drove behind him. Finally I _19_ a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _20_ mydriveway (车道) when the warning light for my gas tank (汽油箱) turned on.
Though so many years have passed, I still thank the old man from my deepest heart.

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