As a 22-year-old ____24____ had been raised to respect and trust adults, I believed my aunt and uncle when they said I’d ____25_____ the relationship between themselves and family.
When I left the phone booth, I went back to a ____26_____ house with three closed bedroom doors. I did not sleep. In the morning, I ____27_____ everyone get up and leave; no one knocked on my door. When it was quiet, I wrote a note of ____28____ and left it in my uncle’s bedroom. I dragged my bags to the train station.
Coming to England seemed like a ___29____ decision. Still worse, no lifts at the station were working. Crying yet again, I tried to lift my suitcase up the ____30____. Suddenly, there were hands. No one said anything, ____31___ each time I faced another set of steps, a hand would catch the suitcase handle and __32___ it. At the top of the steps, the hand would let go, and I'd pull the suitcase to the next set. And just as I was about to ____33___ again, another hand would appear suddenly.
It happened several times. I never looked up and say thanks ____34_____ I couldn't stop crying. I do remember that each ___35___ looked different, and that many different people helped me, without asking or saying anything.
That was the last time I saw or spoke to ___36___ of those four family members. Yet when I think about that terrible ___37____ in 1998, I remember those strangers' hands. They were there when I needed them, and even now, they pull me ___38___ the sadness of that memory. I think of them as I __39___ the underground in Washington D. C. today, and I watch the citizens and tourists, just in case someone ___40___ a hand.
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