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完形填空。
Alone in the light at the dining-room table, I sat in tears．
Finally, I'd succeeded in getting both kids to bed．I got them both washed, 1 by cries of delight, crazy running around, laughing and throwing things． 2 calmed down, they lay in their beds as I gave each the five minutes' back rubs as usual．Then I began the night time routine of a song, both kids' 3 ．I sang it over and over until they seemed fully engaged in 4 ．
A recently 5 man with full custody(监护权)of his children, I was determined to give them as 6 and stable a home life as possible．I 7 a happy face for them．Everything was just as it had always been with the exception 8 their mother was now missing．There, another night successfully 9 ．
I rose slowly, tiptoed out of their room and went downstairs．
Sitting at the 10 room table, I realized that this was the first time since I came home from work that I'd been able to 11 sit down．
Then it all crowded in on me：the fatigue(疲惫)，the 12 of the responsibility, the worry about bills I wasn't sure I could pay that month and 13 ．I felt as though I were at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness．I sat there, silently sobbing．
Just then, a pair of little arms went around my middle and a little face peered up at me．I looked down into my five-year-old son's 14 face．
I was 15 to be seen crying by my son．“I'm sorry, Ethan, I didn't know you were still awake．I'm sorry．I'm just a little 16 tonight．”
“It's okay, Daddy．It's okay to cry, you're just a 17 ．”
I can't express how happy he made me, who gave me 18 to cry．He seemed to be saying that I didn't have to always be 19 , that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to feel weak and 20 my feeling．Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night．Thank you, my son．
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