"The Best Gifts I ever got"...from Reader's Digest

1. (I am?)Like so many Americans, I am spending too much tme shopping for presents to give my children, feeling(=and I feel) unsure that the gifts are things they would use or even want.
2. I need -we all need- to remind ourselves, during the countdown to Christmas, to reach back to our lessons in true giving.
3. On our living room mantel(adv. phrase), was(v.) a complete set of Shakespear's works(s.).
4. Daddy, a teacher-preacher who never raised his voice in the pulpit, tried to educate our congregation's mind, as well as touch its heart.
5. I was given strength from my mother's strength in the face of(:in a situation where there are many problems, difficulties, or dangers) tough challenges.
6. I remember(v.) once, after I became a civil-rights lawyer in Mississippi, (n. clause)I broght home to visit Mama a small girl who'd lost an eye.
7. When (I was=being?)confronted by the reality, though, I quavered. (=Though when confronted by the reality, I quavered.?)
8. (When my mother saw?) Seeing my hestitation, my mother gentlly pushed me aside and did it without missing a beat.
9. I am still ashamed of my resentment when (I was?) asked to share my room with a homeless child for a few days.
10. I no longer have or even remember most of the presents I found under the Chritmas tree as (I was=being?) a child.
11. But I carry with me and treasure the lessons in living I was given throught my childhood....... (=But I carry(v.) the lessons(o.) and treasure(v.) it(o.=the lessons) in living I was given.....?)
12. May these memories give me the strength to stop shopping, and instead to give a child a true gift(=instead of giving a child a true gift?)-time (which is?) spent with a caring adult, time (which is?) spent sharing some of the great lives and spirits ...

Quotes about Friends

1. You can find out who your real friends are when you're involed in a scandal.


2. A real friend is who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.


3. Every body wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you need is somebody who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.


4. Every business is built on friendship.


5. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.


6. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

7. The best mirror is an old friend.

The above transferd from Readers' Digest in April