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In college I had a part-time job at a shop downtown that sold doughnuts(a kind of cake)and coffee. 1 on a block where a dozen buses stopped, it provided food to people who had a few minutes to wait for their 2 .
I poured coffee in the cups and 3 waited on customers who'd point through the glass case and say, “No, not that one, the two rows over.”
Every afternoon around four o'clock, a group of school children would 4 into the shop.Adults would glance in, see the crowd and pass on.I didn't 5 if the kids waited for the bus in the shop.
I came to know them 6 well.The older girls would tell me about their boyfriends, the younger ones would talk about school.The boys were more quiet, choosing not to 7 their secrets, but still, they'd wait every day in the store until their bus came.
Sometimes I'd hand out bus fare when a ticket went 8 -always repaid the next day.When it snowed, the kids and I would wait anxiously for a very 9 bus.They'd call their parents to let them know they were okay.At 10 time I'd lock the door, and the kids and I would wait in the warm store until their bus finally arrived.
I 11 a lot of doughnuts on snowy days.I enjoyed my pal(伙伴),but it never 12 to me that I played an important 13 in their lives-until one Saturday afternoon when a serious-looking man entered the store and asked if I was the girl who worked weekdays around four o'clock.I 14 it was true, and he introduced himself 15 the father of two of my favorites-a brother and sister team.
“I want you to know I appreciate what you do for my children.I 16 about them having to take two buses to get home.It 17 a lot that they can wait here and you are keeping an eye on them.”
I told him I wasn't a big 18 and that I enjoyed the kids.
“No, you don't understand.When they're with the Doughnuts Lady, I know they're 19 .It is a big deal.And I'm grateful.”
So I was the Doughnuts Lady.I not only had received a 20 , I had become a land mark.
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