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Today is my birthday and I’m twenty-one years old. My name is Emma Hyde and my father is Dr David Hyde. He is a doctor in this city and people think he’s an extremely (非常) good doctor. My mother is a nurse. She’s a very good nurse. I have two brothers and one sister. Right now my elder brother is in the Middle East. He has many friends there. My sister is a student, and my younger brother, Mike is a student, too. Both my sister and Mike want to be teachers. They’re studying languages and both of them want to be language teachers. My father’s brother, uncle Charles, is a farmer. My mother’s brother, uncle William, is an engineer (工程师). Both of my uncles are still very young. People can’t guess how old they are. Uncle Charles is thirty-five and uncle William is thirty-six. They often come to see us. We are going to visit Beijing next autumn together.

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　　Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned twelve, a white gardenia was delivered to my house．No card came with it．Calls to the flower shop were not 　　1　　 at all．After a while I stopped trying to 　　2　　 the sender’s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper．

　　However, I never 　　3　　 imagining who the giver might be．Some of my happiest 　　4　　 were spent daydreaming about the sender．My mother encouraged these imaginings．She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had shown special 　　5　　．Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I’d delivered during the winter．As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a 　　6　　 I had run into．

　　One month before my graduation, my father died．I felt so sad that I became completely 　　7　　 in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn’t 　　8　　 if I had a new dress or not．But my mother, despite her own sadness, would not let me 　　9　　 any of those things．She wanted her children not only to be lovable but to feel 　　10　　．In truth, my mother wanted her children to see 　　11　　 much like the gardenia－lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery(神秘)．

　　My mother died ten days after I was married．I was twenty-two years old．That was the year the gardenia stopped 　　12　　．

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