A little boy invited his mother to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy's 1 , she said she would go. This 2 be the first time that his classmates and teacher 3 his mother and he felt 4 of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar that 5 nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 6 why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were 7 by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the 8 , but the little boy was still embarrassed and 9 himself from everyone. He did, however, get within 10 of a talk between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked 11 , "How did you get the scar on your face?"
The mother replied, " 12 my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was 13 afraid to go in because the fire was 14 , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but luckily, a fireman came in and saved 15 of us." She 16 the burned side of her face. "This scar will be 17 , but to this day, I have never 18 what I did."
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with 19 in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him. He held her hand 20 for the rest of the day.
