One day Mrs. Slaton gave the class a written 22_. "What do you think you’ll be doing 10 years from now?” Jean’s dream was to be a pilot like her father, but as the years went by, she had been beaten down by the _23_ and negative words she got whenever she talked about her career, so she unwillingly gave it up and wrote something else. Mrs. Slaton collected the papers and nothing more was said. Two weeks later, the teacher handed back the assignments, 24_ the students to face it down on the desk, and asked this question: "If you had enough finances and unlimited 25_, what would you do? Please write it on the _26_ of your previous assignment paper.”

　　When the students stopped writing, the teacher asked, "How many of you wrote the same thing on 27_ sides of the paper?" Not one hand went up.

　　The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean’s life. The teacher leaned forward _28_ her desk and said, "I have a little secret for you all. You do have _29_ abilities and talents. You do have access to the finest schools, and you can arrange plenty of finances if you want something _30_ enough. This is it! When you leave school, _31_ you don’t go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have _32_ you want if you want it enough.”

　　What her teacher said touched Jean so much! In the following years, she tried her best to realize her dream of becoming a pilot. Although it didn’t happen _33_, she finally became one of the first three female pilot trainees ever _34_ by United Airlines. Today, Jean Harper is a Boeing 737 captain.

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