Edit me

  1. ________(无论生活丢给我什么), I’d be okay because she was there to protect me.

  2. ________(我感觉自己已然长大成人), a real grown-up.

  3. To laugh and joke with the people I loved most as they ________(迅速吃掉/大快朵颐) the meal that I’d provided gave me a feeling of joy and accomplishment that words can’t possibly describe.

  4. No ________(鼓舞士气的话) or speech could show me how it felt to transition from seeking shelter to providing it.

  5. The highway was ________(没有速度检测器) for the next seventy miles.

  6. Her doctor explained that she had ________(没有什么机会) of living without a ventilator and ________(饲管).

  7. It was time to ________(清算整理房产债务), figure out Mamaw’s debts, dispose of her property, and disburse what remained.

  8. And Mamaw’s debts were large enough to ________(侵蚀/花掉) a substantial portion of the home’s equity.

  9. Lucky for us, this was 2005 — ________(房地产泡沫的最高点).

  10. I hadn’t seen in months that I didn’t realize Mom was slowly ________([情绪又]回到了外公去世时的样子).

  11. I wanted her to get better and thought that if I ________(合作/配合), there was a chance she would.

  12. I thought briefly that this was it — that I’d ________(翻过防护栏) and join Mamaw

  13. My final two years in the Marines flew by and were largely ________(平静无事), though two incidents stand out, each of which speaks to the way the Marine Corps changed my perspective.

  14. Early in my deployment, I ________(属于) a civil affairs unit to do ________(社区外展).

  15. I don’t believe in epiphanies. I don’t believe in ________(变革的时刻), as transformation is harder than a moment.

  16. From the first day, with that scary drill instructor and a piece of cake, until the last, when I ________(拿到了我的退伍书) and sped home, the Marine Corps taught me how to live like an adult.

  17. When I caught ________(脓毒性咽喉炎) and tried to ________(熬[病]过去), my commanding officer noticed and ordered me to the doctor.

  18. I felt so lucky to even get a loan that I was ready to ________(付诸行动) immediately.

  19. The press is the ________(圣杯) of Marine Corps public affairs: the biggest audience and the highest stakes.

  20. Our media officer at Cherry Point was a captain who, for reasons I never understood, quickly fell out of favor with the base’s ________(高级军官).

  21. There was ________(没有能够立即替换的人选) when he ________(被开除).

  22. By then I’d grown accustomed to ________(海军陆战队有时候略显随意的人员委派).

  23. As a friend joked, I had ________(有播音的材质，但是其貌不扬), and I wasn’t prepared for live TV interviews about happenings on base.

  24. The Marine Corps ________(把我扔进了虎穴). I struggled a bit at first—allowing some photographers to take photos of ________(机密飞机); ________(说错话) at a meeting with senior officers—and ________(我被臭骂了一顿).

  25. We discussed how to build relationships with the press, how to ________(传达必要信息), and how to manage my time.

  26. I could ________(每天20小时地投入工作) when I had to. I could speak clearly and confidently ________(面对电视镜头). I could stand in a room with majors, colonels, and generals and ________(不受干扰).