Every morning, Haze Mabry is seen busy cleaning up the teaching building. He 1 as a school keeper for thirteen years.
Last Friday, after he arrived at the school, instead of finding rubbish to clean up, he found almost 800 students lining the hallways 2 handmade cards and singing Happy Birthday to him. It was his 80th. As he walked the long hallway, some jumped out of line 3 him. The students handed him so many 4 that they filled several large boxes.
Mabry 5 by their warm greetings and thanked them all. "They're like my children," Mabry said.
He knows most of the kids at 6 school. Students sometimes come up to him to say they're not feeling well or other times to share 7 that happened to them at break.
"No matter what he's doing or where he is, he will always stop 8 to cheer up a child if that child is having a bad day. He's the most loved one in this building," said Lori Gilreath, a reading teacher.
Mabry said he hadn't planned to do much for his milestone (里程碑) birthday, 9 he was happy the students prepared the surprise celebration.
Over the weekend, he went through the boxes of handmade cards at his house. One card from a student stood out to him. It read, "Mr. Haze, you are my sunshine." He did feel the 10 of sunshine on the cold winter morning.
