At 1 a. m.I __1__ Cairo and took a taxi to Tahrir Square.I was __2__ and, having been to Cairo before, knew that while most of the city was __3__ at this hour, a couple of fastfood restaurants would be open there.

　　The taxi dropped me __4__ across the street from Hardee's.A moment later, just as I was about to __5__ the restaurant door, two street children ran towards me with full __6__ for food.

　　Being a veteran (老练之人) traveler __7__ having once lived in Egypt for a year, I was no stranger to children __8__ or people asking me for help.But seldom had I been so __9__ by the sincerity of the request.

　　I turned back to the __10__ and asked them to wait while I went inside to buy them food.At the counter I __11__ two hamburgers for the boys.

　　When their food was ready, I walked back __12__ and invited them in to eat with me.“No！” they cried __13__.“We do not belong in such a nice place！”

　　__14__ to persuade them otherwise, I brought the __15__ out, and as they took the burgers, they showered me with 30 seconds of nonstop __16__，praying that Allah would always bless me.

　　And this is __17__ five years later, I still ask God's blessings for those two Egyptian boys.I __18__ as sincerely as they had for me, __19__ that while they had nothing material to give, they had given me something __20__ : an awareness of my spiritual poverty and a desire for a softer heart.

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