Later, I matured into a man and had my own children. Whenever coming home, I would ask Dad to play the mandolin, for nobody played the mandolin like him. He could ___24___ your soul with tunes coming out of that old mandolin. He seemed to ___25___ when playing, taking pride in his ability to play so well.
Unfortunately, in 1977. Dad was ___26___ in an accident, leaving his third finger of his left hand wounded seriously. ___27___ he didn’t lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, it did affect his ___28___ to play the mandolin. After the accident, he was ___29___ to play and felt unable to play as well as before. Every time we asked him to play, he would make excuses. ___30___, we could persuade him and he would say “Okay. But I can’t hold down on the strings and play as well as before.” For the family it made no ___31___. When he played the old mandolin, it would carry us back to a cheerful, happier time.
In August 1993, Dad was ___32___ with serious disease. He chose not to receive any chemotherapy(化疗)treatments ___33___ he could live out his rest life in dignity(尊严). A week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for his family. First he made the usual ___34___ again but later said “Okay.”, ___35___ it was likely to be the last chance for us to hear him playing. He tuned up the old mandolin and played. ___36___, I found everyone in the family ___37___. We saw before us a quiet humble man with an inner ___38___ that lives with him in his life.
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