Dad is a retired officer. In his precinct (管辖区) lived a family, consisting of a 1single mother and her four sons.
The three older sons were all involved in2as a career. Drugs, sale of stolen items, etc. The youngest who was about 10 years old was likely to follow in their footsteps. She was always very 3 when being questioned where her sons were. During a talk with my dad, she expressed her4 in regards to her youngest boy who was about 10 years old. She felt powerless in 5him to the right track.
My dad asked if she would allow her "baby" to 6 the inner city and spent the summer in the rural areas at our house. The 7agreed and thought that it would be 8 for her boy to see another side of family life which he had never been 9 to. So it was done.
My dad had three sons and a daughter (me). We had a new 10 in our family for the summer. Although we must have seemed very unfamiliar to him, he had no trouble 11. He enjoyed the pool in the backyard and made many friends. The whole neighborhood 12 him and he loved the attention. At the end of summer he 13 to his mother.
I 14 about him several years later. Dad told me he went to night school for accounting and 15 landed an office job and he was the only son who did not become a career criminal (罪犯).
