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In the city of Fujisawa, Japan, lives a woman named Atsuko Saeki when she was a teenager, she 1 of going to the United States.Most of what she knew about American 2 was from the textbooks she had read.“I had a 3 in mind:Daddy watching TV in the living room, Mummy 4 cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend.”
Atsuko 5 to attend college in California.When she arrived, however, she found it was not her 6 world._______ “People were struggling with problems and often seemed 7 ,” she said.“I felt very alone.”
One of her hardest 8 was physical education.“We played volleyball.” she said.
“The other students were 9 it, but I wasn’t.”
One afternoon, the instructor asked Atsuko to 10 the ball to her teammates so they could knock it 11 the net-No problem for most people, but it terrified Atsuko.She was afraid of losing face 12 she failed.
A young man on her team 13 what she was going through.“ He walked up to me and 14 , ‘Come on.You can do that.’”
“You will never understand how those words of 15 made me feel.Four words:You can do that I felt like crying with happiness.”
She made it through the class.Perhaps she thanked the young man;she is not 16 .
Six years have passed.Atsuko is back in Japan, working as a salesclerk.“I have 17 forgotten the words.” she said.“When things are not going so well, I think of them.”
She is sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness 18 to her.“He probably doesn’t even remember it, ” she said.That may be the lesson.Whenever you say something to a person cruel or kind-you have no idea how long the words will 19 .She’s all the way over in Japan, but still she hears those four 20 words:You can do that.