Knowing that she didn't have family in town, I __4__ to give her a call. Sure enough, she was on her shift, __5__ to work late into the evening, and wouldn't have __6__ of a birthday this year. As always, though, she __7__ cheerful and was happy that I __8__.
After I hung up, I couldn't __9__ the feeling that she would really appreciate a little attention on her special day. __10__ feeling a little depressed myself, I tried to put it out of my mind, but as the day passed, I couldn't shake the thought. I __11__ gave in, and set off to the hospital with a card, a cheese cake, and some balloons that evening. My friend's grateful smile and joyful surprise __12__ me that I'd done the right thing, and they were a generous __13__ for the little effort it had taken.
When I got home, I realized that not only had I cheered up a __14__ friend on her birthday, but my own negative feelings had also disappeared. Making her day had __15__ my own! Isn't that the way it is __16__ we take the time and make the __17__ to do something for someone else? It's just like the saying, “Loving kindness is twice blessed; it blesses him who gives, and him who __18__.”
Cheering up people on their birthdays isn't the only thing we can do to make their day. Life constantly presents us with __19__ to take an extra step or do a kind deed that will make difference to __20__. And the wonderful thing is that as we do, it changes things for the better for us too.
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