My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. It wa

My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. It was the first time in our life that we would     36     for any length of time. We wondered how other people had     37     it.
Later in bed, I     38     the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay home to keep the     39     from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to     40     college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn’t want to get to the city     41    . I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little     42    . He finally said, “I never went to college and     43     of your brothers did. I can’t say don’t do this or that, because everything is     44     and I don’t know what is going to e up, but I think things will     45    . When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be     46     in the big town and I would be     47     the life home.
Then my father     48     the Bible that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but I must     49     it. He just said, “This can help you     50     you will let it.”
When I finished school I took the Bible     51     to my father. But he said he wanted me to     52     it.
Now, too often, I remember. It would have been so     53     to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn’t. My father could give me only a Bible, but now I don’t really believe that I gave her half as     54     as my father gave me. So the next morning I     55     up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note “This can help you.” I said, “if you will let it.”
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