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“Do you remember when Sean used to tell me that I was the best dad in the world?” Ethan asked his ____, Grace.

“Yes, I do. I always envied your relationship with ____,” she replied.

Ethan ____ shared how things had changed since his son started middle school.

Grace had noticed Ethan often pushing Sean to ____ harder.

“Maybe he isn’t that into ____ right now. How about going hiking, just the two of you?” she suggested.

He agreed, and realizing that both his and Sean’s hiking jackets were still at the ____, he asked his wife to go and pick them up with him.

“When ____ you bring the jackets in?” the clerk at the laundry asked.

“Maybe two ____ ago,” Ethan replied.

Then, Grace quickly reminded ____, “Honey, we actually left them here a month ago.”

The clerk went into the storage area to look for the ____.

Finally, he returned with the jackets and handed ____ to Ethan.

The clerk politely said, “I am sorry, but please collect your items ____ next time.

Our storage is too full.” Ethan felt embarrassed for the late ____ and apologized.

Ethan and Grace came ____ home with the jackets and checked if Sean had everything else he needed for hiking.

Luckily, in his drawers they ____ his hat, shoes, sunglasses, and hiking sticks.

When Sean ____ from school, Ethan softly said, “Sean, let’s go hiking this Saturday, just the two of us.”

Though Sean ____ him for the suggestion, he said he had to go to the library.

Grace stepped in, “____ know, the weather this weekend will be the best of the year.

Why not ____ it?” After a moment’s hesitation, he agreed.

The weather was perfect. ____ and Sean set off hiking along the valley by Aicken Mountain.

They walked in silence ____ Sean fell over a rock and twisted his ankle.

Realizing he couldn’t walk, Ethan carried his son down on his ____.

He felt Sean’s heartbeat, something he ____ felt since Sean was a baby.

Suddenly, ____ said, “Dad, I’m sorry. At some point, I started to become afraid of disappointing you.

But you are still the ____ dad.” Energized, he felt no weight on his back and replied, “You are the best son, no matter what.”

When Felix was a young elementary school boy in Colorado, Mr. ____, his teacher said, “Take your coats with you to recess. You won’t be allowed to return to get them.”

Felix thought, “No ____, I won’t be cold.”

Once outside, however, he was getting very ____.

He was really afraid to go back to the room, but reasoned it was better to risk his teacher’s anger than to ____ to death, and he was clearly freezing to death.

So he ____ back into the classroom.

Back in the closet where the ____ were hung Felix grabbed his coat and pulled it down.

Along with the coat came a box of ____ microscope slides crashing down and breaking into pieces all over the floor.

He quickly ran back outside. Once the students ____ inside, Mr. Evans said, “Somebody knows who broke those slides. Can anyone tell me who it was?”

Felix just hung his head and ____ his mouth shut for the rest of the day.

Returning home, Felix ____ really bad and his mother knew something was wrong, but he said nothing.

Finally, he could stand it no longer and blurted out the ____ to her.

She said, “It’s okay. Just ____ your teacher what happened and offer to pay for the slides.”

At the ____ he was only getting twenty-five cents a week for allowance and figured he would be thirty-seven by the time he finished paying.

The next day, Felix went to tell Mr. ____ what had happened.

He ____, “I was just freezing and tried to get my coat and I didn’t mean for the slides to break, and was too embarrassed to tell you, but I will pay my whole allowance of twenty-five cents a week.”

At that point the teacher stretched the truth ____.

He said, “I noticed that only two ____ were broken, so you can pay fifty cents and that will cover the damage.”

Felix ____ exactly fifty cents in his piggy bank, so he was extremely relieved.

I was deeply engaged in practicing my singing, hitting some challenging high notes, ____ I suddenly heard an off-pitch cry outside.

Is that a dog ____ to imitate my singing?

Annoyed, I stomped to the window, preparing to give the owner a piece of my ____.

My new neighbor, Rober, was lounging on his swing ____, and next to him was a massive dog, head thrown back, belting out his version of my song.

“Um, excuse me?” I called out. “Your dog seems to think ____ the next big thing in opera?”

Rober looked up, surprised, and ____ said.

“Oh! I’m so sorry. That’s Thunder. He gets a little carried away ____ he hears music. Thinks he’s a canine Pavarotti or something. My apologies for his... performance.”

I took a deep breath and forced a ____.

“Tell Thunder he might need a few more lessons before his big debut,” I teased, trying to ____ my annoyance.

We shared a friendly wave, and I returned to practice, hoping for a more peaceful practice ____ next time.

The following day, sunlight filtered through the curtains as I ____ my vocal warm- ups.

The notes flew smoothly, and the rhythm was ____ on point.

However, as I hit a high note, I was rudely ____ by a series of loud deep barks.

I tried to continue, hoping the ____, Thunder, would stop, but his barks grew louder and more insistent, matching my pitch and rhythm.

My concert was just ____ the corner, and every practice counted.

Marching to the window to assert that Rober needed to control his dog, I saw him smiling at Thunder lovingly while putting a ____ to his lips, signaling him to be quiet.

When our eyes met, ____ motioned for me to come outside with an apologetic look.

I went out and ____ him. He hesitated, “Well, I was a military dog trainer, and there was my partner dog named Alice back then.”

Together, they had ____ dangerous areas in Afghanistan until Alice died facing hostile forces.

Rober ____ that Thunder is her young, who reminds him of Alice’s brave eyes.

Tears welled up in my eyes. I wrapped my ____ around the massive dog, feeling the warmth of this living connection to Rober’s past.

The ____, an indigenous tribe, had three clans.

These were the Turkey, Turtle, and Wolf clans. Tamanend became the Chief of the ____ Clan.

He earned respect with his honorable ____, resulting in him gaining more power.

Through the reputation he built as an honorable individual and chief of the Turtle Clan, Tamanend was chosen as the representative of all ____ clans when dealing with Europeans.

Eventually, the land on which the Lenape ____ was granted to a white man named William Penn by the King of England.

The king did not ____ have a right to give the land to him, but he acted as if the land was his anyway.

This action disregarded the sovereignty of the Lenape people and their long-lasting claim to the land, which naturally ____ the Lenape to mistrust William Penn.

So, to ____ serious conflict, William Penn and Chief Tamanend had many discussions with the Lenape and their representatives.

After a long ____, the two formed a treaty. William Penn was also known as a man of honor.

He sought to build a common understanding with the ____ Americans on the land the English King gave him.

He tried to learn Unami, the language of ____ Tamanend.

William did not intend to interfere with the way Native Americans ____ their tribes.

William’s intention was to create an honest agreement where he would gain ____ ownership of the land.

This attitude helped when forming the peace treaty, because Tamanend ____ see he was a man to be trusted.

The treaty would guarantee that there would be ____ between the people represented by William Penn and the people represented by Chief Tamanend.

The ____ meant that William Penn had to give things like blankets and kettles to the Lenape so that he could take and sell their land.

Chief Tamanend said that the Lenape would live in love with William and his ____ while the water runs, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.

This ____ was honored by both individuals and the people they represented.

____ reigned in the land for more than 75 years. This was thanks to the wisdom and hospitality of Chief Tamanend and his people.

He did ____ desire to cause fighting, but rather to create peace.

Because of his wisdom, many celebrated him as the ____ saint of America.

Tom sat on the living room floor, watching his father, Jack, fine-tune the dial on their old ____ radio.

The sound of static gave way to a crisp British voice saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, we are moments away from Roger Bannister’s ____ at breaking the four-minute mile.”

“Sit still, Tommy. You’ll want to remember this,” Jack advised, his eyes ____ as if trying to see the event through the radio itself.

Tom adjusted his ____ posture and looked at the black-and-white photo of his dad in a track uniform, placed prominently on the mantelpiece.

He ____ been a decent runner in his day, but nothing close to what they were about to hear.

____, the announcer’s voice broke the silence, “And he’s off!”

For the next ____ minutes, the small living room was filled with the play-by-play of Roger Bannister running the laps.

Each description of his pace, his form, his determination was like a brushstroke painting an invisible image in the air — Jack and Tom leaning in as if they could will Bannister to go ____.

“Final stretch!” the announcer practically ____. “He’s done it! Three minutes, fifty-nine point four seconds!”

Jack grabbed Tom’s shoulder, giving it a ____ squeeze.

“He broke it, Tommy! Broke it!” A week later, Tom found himself in the backyard wearing his father’s old track shoes, which were a few sizes too ____.

His course was nothing more than a ____ around their property, marked by garden stones and an apple tree.

Jack stood with a stopwatch, a smile ____ his face.

“Ready, set, go!” Jack ____. Tom’s initial steps were awkward in the oversized shoes, but he soon found his rhythm.

Tom rounded the apple tree, his lungs burning but his heart ____.

When he crossed his finish line, Jack clicked the stopwatch. “Five minutes and twenty-one seconds,” he announced, but the numbers ____ matter.

That evening, Tom placed the stopwatch on the mantelpiece, next to his ____ old track photo.

Neither of them spoke about it, but ____ understood.

It wasn’t just a moment in history they had ____ to; it was a moment that had dashed through their living room, laced up its shoes, and sprinted right into their lives.