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语言朋友(64)__1__with him.In the beginning, she made sure to let me know that I was welcome in her __2__.I remember when I first saw her at the__3__.It was different, but not __4__.Over the past years there is __5__I needed that she did not provide.I'm the young woman I'm today because she made sure to__6__me properly.Yesterday I went to see her for Mother's Day.When I gave her __7__ , she held my face in both of her hands and kissed me straight on the __8__even though I had the flu. Her simple act of affection__9__me back to my first night in America.After I was__10__up from the airport we went home and she__11__my luggage and took me shopping for new clothes since the ones I had brought with me from Africa were a bit __12__.That night before I went to bed, she came to my room, the first room I had ever had of my own.She told me she was __13__ to have me and that she would take good care of me.Before she __14__ she asked me for a hug.That was my__15__first hug and I was 11 years old at that time. I'm 23 years old now and I have received many__16__ over the past years, but none has given me a greater__17__or deeper impression.I regarded her as my__18__mother because my new life began when I came to__19__with her.Today I say to my mother, Mrs.Sherrill Kirundi, thank you, mom.Thank you for your giving me my__20__childhood back. 解题导语：继母无私的爱让作者重新享受到童年幸福作者在文中表达了对继母的感激和爱。reunited | 
