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Every Wednesday，I go to Cantata Adult Life Services，a local retirement community，with my classmates to do community service. Our visits last about an hour，playing board games and cards with the residents __1__ we're there. You can watch all the movies and TV shows you want about “life back then” ，but nothing __2__ with talking to the people who were actually there.Just hearing their stories has __3__ me in a way never thought possible. Whether it was talking to 98－year－old “Hurricane Hilda” about her glory days __4__ a roller skater or chatting with Lou about the times she danced with a famous actor，I was completely attracted by every single __5__ the residents wanted to share with me. Even the residents who don't have __6__ memories make the experience fulfilling.I remember visiting Mrs.Robinson.She couldn't __7__ much about her past，but she told me she'd __8__ forget how kind I was just to listen to her “ramblings(漫谈) ”.It made me realize that it's the __9__ things that make life worth living.That's something I won't __10__ anytime. If there's one thing I've realized in my three years of visiting Cantata，it's that __11__—just being there—that means more than anything to many of the residents.And despite how __12__ our lives are，there's always time to make them happy. For me，it feels great to be a __13__ of happiness，a smile on a bad day or a(n) __14__ for old memories.And at the end of the day，that's all that __15__. | 
