Elizabeth (live) with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood, and quite a few houses were washed away, but Elizabeth's house (be) high enough to escape it.
Elizabeth helped one of the (family) which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could (build) a new house. Elizabeth's friends could not understand her since she already had so many children (take) care.
"Well," Elizabeth explained to her friends, "At the end of World War II, there was a poor woman in a town in England. Her husband (kill) in the war and she had a lot of children, just like me now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, 'We won't be able to have much for Christmas. I (get) just one present for us all. Now I'll go and get it.' She came back with a little girl who had no (parent). 'Here's our present,' she said to her own children. The children were more than (excite) to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl (warm), and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas present."
