A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I kn

A few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of     41    .
“Do you know     42     you and I are?” she asked.     43     I could answer, she gave out the reason for her question. She had just returned from renewing her driver’s license at a government office. The woman     44     desk asked her what her “occupation” was. Emily hesitated,     45     how to answer it. “What I mean is,” explained the woman, “do you have a job, or are you just a ...?”“Of course I have a job,” answered Emily. “I’m a (an)     46    .”“We don’t     47     ‘mother’ as an occupation ... ‘housewife’ covers it,” she said.
I forgot all about her story     48     one day I found myself in the same situation. This time it was at our own Town Hall. The clerk was a woman.
“And what is your occupation?” she asked. What     49     me say it, I do not know. The words simply jumped out. “I’m ... a (an)     50     in the field of Child Development and Human Relations.”
The clerk stopped, her ball-point pen     51     in mid-air. She looked up     52     she had not heard right. I repeated the title slowly.
“Might I ask,” said the clerk with new interest, “just what you do in your     53    ?” Coolly, I heard myself     54    , “I have a continuing program of research in the
laboratory and in the field. I’m working for my masters (the whole family) and already have     55     credits (令人增光的人或事物) (all daughters). I often work 14 hours a day (24 is more like it). The job is more challenging than most jobs and the     56     are in satisfaction rather than just money.”
There was an increasing note of     57     in the clerk’s voice as she     58     in the form. As I drove into our driveway(私家车道), I was     59     by my lab assistants — ages 13, 7, and 3. Inside the house I could hear our new experimental model (six months) in the child-development program.
I felt successful. Motherhood...what a great     60    .
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