“Look,it’s Baldy!”A boy shouted in my direction across the playground.Even though I was used to regular insults(侮辱) because of the__1__on my head,it was__2__horrible to hear.I sighed as I headed back to the class.
When I was just 20 months old,I suffered serious__3__after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head.I was__4__ to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors__5__ to save my life.“Holly’s very__6__to be alive,” they told Mum and Dad.“But she’ll be__7__ with scars on her head,and of course her hair won’t grow there.”
As a child,I cared much about my scars,so I__8__wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home.__9__I didn’t,people would call me horrible names like Baldy.Although my friends were always comforting me,they never__10__understood how it felt.
Then through the hospital I was__11__ to a children’s burns camp,where children like me can get any help.There,I__12__14yearold Stephanie,whose burns are a lot more serious than mine.But she is so __13__ that she never lets anyone put her down.“You shouldn’t__14__what people say about what you look like because we’re not different from anyone else,Holly,”she__15__me.“And you don’t need to wear a scarf because you look great __16__ it!”For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who’d been through something__17__.So weeks later,at my 13th birthday party,__18__by her bravery,I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars.It felt amazing not having to__19__away behind my scarf.
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