My son Joey was born with clubfeet (畸形足). The doctors told us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally 1 would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in 2 . By the time he was eight, you 3 he had a problem when you saw him walk.
The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would
4 and play, too. We 5 told him that he probably wouldn t be able to 6 as wall as the other children. So he didn t know.
In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross country 7 . Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others perhaps he 8 that the abilities that seemed to come 9 to so many others did not come naturally to him. Although the 10 team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential (可能性)to 11 points for the school. We didn t tell him he probably would never 12 the team, so he didn t know.
He 13 to run four to five miles a day, every day even the day he had a 103 degree fever. I was 14 , so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt, 15 , he said.He had two more miles to go. The sweat 16 his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he 17 straight ahead and kept running.. We never told him he couldn t run four miles with a 103 degree fever. So he didn t know.
Two weeks later, the name of the team runners were 18 . Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was only in seventh the other six team members were all 19 .
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