That morning, my girls pushed me into the living room to see something. (I prayed it wasn’t __8__ repair job.) The ‘something’ turned out to be an __9__ and several wrapped things on the carpet. My __10__ must have been plain as I stared from the colorful packages to my daughters’ __11__ faces.
‘Go ahead! Open them!’ they urged. As I __12__ the packages, I discovered a small barbecue grill(烤架) and all the necessary __13__ including a green kitchen glove.
‘But why?’ I asked.
‘Happy Father’s Day!’ they shouted together.
‘Moms don’t get presents on Father’s Day,’ I said.
‘You forgot to open the __14__,’ Jane reminded. I pulled it from the envelope. There sat Snoopy, merrily wishing me a Happy Father’s Day. ‘Because,’ the girls said, ‘you’ve been a father and mother to us, why shouldn’t you be __15__ on Father’s Day?’
As I fought back tears, I realized they were __16__. I wanted to be a ‘professional’ dad, who had the latest tools. The girls __17__ wanted a parent they could count on to be there, day after day, __18__ repeatedly the tasks of basic care and love.
The girls are grown now, __19__ they still send me Father’s Day cards, but none of those cards means as much to me as that first one. Its simple message told me being a great parent didn’t require any special __20__ at all – just a willing worker.
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