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I was feeling sad because my mother was out of job. It left me wondering 小题1: was going to happen to us.
I got off the college shuttle bus and started walking. Then I heard piano music and singing rising above the noise of the people and the traffic. I walked much 小题2: (slow) so I could find out where it was coming 小题3: . Through the crowd I saw小题4:young lady sitting at a piano with a carriage next to her. She was singing songs with love and keeping on trying. The way she was singing comforted me a bit. I stood there 小题5: (watch) her play for about fifteen minutes, thinking that 小题6: must take courage to perform小题7:her own in the middle of a crowd.
She must have felt my presence because she would often look in my direction. By now I was telling myself that if she could perform in front of hundreds of people小题8:she didn’t know, I could at least tell her how good she sounded. I walked over, put some money in her carriage and 小题9: (say), “Thank you. I have been going through a hard time 小题10:(late), but you’ve made me hopeful again.”
