The Unlocked Door

　　There is a true story about a young lady who got so sick of living with her strict parents that she ran away from home. However, she soon found out that 1 was not easy on her own. She couldn’t find a job, and it didn’t take long for her friends to get2 her so they kicked her out. Well, this young 19-year-old girl got so 3 that she decided to start making money by begging.

　　Years passed. Her father died. Her mother grew older. But she still would not write or go home to see her4 . One day, the mother 5 that her daughter was seen in a certain part of town,so she wentthere　　6 her daughter. She went to every store and cheap hotel asking to put a picture of herself, now a gray-haired woman, on their walls. Beside her picture was this message to her daughter which simply 7 : “I still love you! Please come home!”

　　Months 8 and nothing happened. Then one day the daughter wandered into one of those hotels. You can imagine how 9she was to see her mother’s picture on the wall of that dirty, cheap hotel. As she read her mother’s message to her, she burst into 10 .

　　That night she started walking many miles back to her home. It was in the early morning that she finally arrived at the front door of her parents’ house. She began to 11 but the door was already open. Afraid that someone had 12 the house, she 13 inside and woke up the sleeping old lady and told her she had finally come home. Mother and daughter began to cry as they held each other. The daughter said, “I thought someone had broken open the door!” But the mother　14 her head and answered 15 , “My dear, from the day you left I’ve kept the door unlocked.”