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What ‘P’ is a baglike pocket of skin                                                                 Pouch

What ‘W’ is a lump raised on the body by a heavy blow                             Welt

What ‘S’ is dense, visible air pollution                                                            Smog

What ‘T’ is to pull along behind one                                                               Tow

What ‘R’ is a place of shelter                                                                            Refuge

What ‘C’ means a style of cooking                                                             Cuisine (kwi-zeen)

What ‘V’ means using more words than are necessary                              Verbose

What ‘G’ is a channel for rainwater                                                                 Gutter

What ‘Z’ is a course of sharp alternate turns                                                 Zigzag

What ‘A’ is an animal that can live on land and in water                            Amphibian

What ‘T’ is to provoke in a mocking way                                                        Taunt

What ‘V’ is the extreme edge, brink or border                                                Verge

What ‘E’ is to lengthen                                                                                      Elongate

What ‘P’ is a persistent illogical fear of something                                       Phobia

What ‘I’ is unlawful or forbidden                                                                      Illicit / Illegal

What ‘F’ means recently                                                                                   Freshly

1. Some people thought he was sweet and childlike in his innocence, but I always thought he was boorish and childish.
2. I chose the red balloon. Now you choose a balloon of another color.
3. The climactic moment of a lightning storm, nature's most dramatic climatic event, is a deafening roll of thunder.
4. His clothes were made of cloths of many different colors.
5. We used a coarse sandpaper, of course.She complimented her sister on the way her scarf complemented her blouse.
6. Connecticut comprises eight counties. The system is constituted of twelve separate campuses. [If you say "comprised of," you've probably used the word incorrectly.]
7. She was confident that her confidant had given her good information.
8. Confounded by the instructor's ambiguous instructions, the students' problems were compounded by a lack of time to do the exam.
9. The word guts denotes one's viscera, one's intestines, but it also connotes determination, fortitude, persistence, and courage.
10. There was a terrible dinning noise coming from the dining room.
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A Mother's Sacrifice: A VERY TOUCHING STORY!

My mom only had one eye. I hated her... she was such an embarrassment. My mom ran a small shop at a flea market. She collected little weeds and such to sell... anything for the money we needed she was such an embarrassment. There was this one day during elementary school.

I remember that it was field day, and my mom came. I was so embarrassed.

How could she do this to me? I threw her a hateful look and ran out. The next day at school..."Your mom only has one eye?!" and they taunted me.

I wished that my mom would just disappear from this world so I said to my mom, "Mom, why don't you have the other eye?! You're only going to make me a laughingstock. Why don't you just die?" My mom did not respond. I guess I felt a little bad, but at the same time, it felt good to think that I had said what I'd wanted to say all this time.

Maybe it was because my mom hadn't punished me, but I didn't think that I had hurt her feelings very badly.

That night...I woke up, and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. My mom was crying there, so quietly, as if she was afraid that she might wake me. I took a look at her, and then turned away. Because of the thing I had said to her earlier, there was something pinching at me in the corner of my heart. Even so, I hated my mother who was crying out of her one eye. So I told myself that I would grow up and become successful, because I hated my one-eyed mom and our desperate poverty.

Then I studied really hard. I left my mother and came to Seoul and studied, and got accepted in the Seoul University with all the confidence I had. Then, I got married. I bought a house of my own. Then I had kids, too. Now I'm living happily as a successful man. I like it here because it's a place that doesn't remind me of my mom. This happiness was getting bigger and bigger, when someone unexpected came to see me "What?! Who's this?!" ...It was my mother...Still with her one eye. It felt as if the whole sky was falling apart on me. My little girl ran away, scared of my mom's eye.

And I asked her, "Who are you? I don't know you!!!" as if I tried to make that real. I screamed at her "How dare you come to my house and scare my daughter! GET OUT OF HERE! NOW!!!" And to this, my mother quietly answered, "oh, I'm so sorry. I may have gotten the wrong address," and she disappeared. Thank good ness... she doesn't recognize me. I was quite relieved. I told myself that I wasn't going to care, or think about this for the rest of my life.

Then a wave of relief came upon me...one day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to my house. I lied to my wife saying that I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went down to the old shack, that I used to call a house...just out of curiosity there, I found my mother fallen on the cold ground. But I did not shed a single tear. She had a piece of paper in her hand.... it was a letter to me.

She wrote:

My son...

I think my life has been long enough now. And... I won't visit Seoul anymore... but would it be too much to ask if I wanted you to come visit me once in a while? I miss you so much. And I was so glad when I heard you were coming for the reunion. But I decided not to go to the school.... For you... I'm sorry that I only have one eye, and I was an embarrassment for you. You see, when you were very little, you got into an accident, and lost your eye. As a mother, I couldn't stand watching you having to grow up with only one eye... so I gave you mine...I was so proud of my son that was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eye. I was never upset at you for anything you did. The couple times that you were angry with me. I thought to myself, 'it's because he loves me.' I miss the times when you were still young around me.

I miss you so much. I love you. You mean the world to me.

My world shattered!!!

Then I cried for the person who lived for me... MY MOTHER

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Buxone Out Of The Box December 11, 2017