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When our restaurant business failed, we headed north in a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “fresh start”.
At the __1__ of Palo Duro Canyon (峡谷) State Park, I __2__ a job advertisement hiring park hosts.The position offered a __3__, permanent campsite in the park, and __4__, the hosts served as a link between the park's guests and the rangers (护林人).It was the perfect solution: a rentfree place to reorganize our lives.We entered the park and I made an __5__ for the following day.
The park was __6__, so it took us some time to find an available site.That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼬) walking toward our table.We __7__ climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to__8__ our camp.
Having survived that night, we were __9__ that everything else would be all right.The next day we met with the people who ran the park.They explained our __10__and gave us a beautiful campsite.
That evening,__11__, we learned about the canyon __12__.They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently, and we lay __13__ in the dark until the winds died away.
__14__ the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and__15__the little money my wife __16__by substitute teaching.Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful__17__.For a time after our business__18__ I thought I might lose my family as well.
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