"Can I see my baby?" asked the new happy mother.
Unluckily, she found her baby had been 1 without ears when it was in her arms.
Time proved that the baby's 2 was perfect. He got on well with his classmates. But one day, he rushed home and said to his mother 3 tears in his eyes" A big boy 4 me a freak(怪胎)."
As the boy 5 , he developed a talent for art and music.
The boy's father had a meeting with the family doctor." Could anything 6 done?" He asked the doctor.
"I believe I could graft(移植) a pair of outer ears 7 you could get them," the doctor said.
However, two years 8 , nobody wanted to offer the young man ears. Then one day the father said, "Son, 9 will offer his ears to you. But it's a secret." The operation was a great 10 .
Time kept the secret, but the day did come … The young man stood with his father 11 his mother's body. Slowly, the father held out a hand and raised the thick, brown hair. 12 , the son found his mother had no outer ears.
"Mother said she was glad she 13 let her long hair be cut," the father said gently "and nobody ever thought Mother 14 beautiful, did they?"
Real 15 lies not in what is done and known, but in what is done but not known.
