The Moving Love Story about Onions
I always recall my dad as well as my mom whenever I see or hear of the onions. Although all between my dad and my mom has passed with the tide of time, the memory still ____1____ in my mind. In my memory, my parents are a favorable loving and caring couple. They lived in ____2____ with each other from the day of their marriage to the existence of me in the family.
____3____, those happy days didn’t last long. When I was ten, my mom suddenly ____4____ in a faint when washing up in the kitchen. I was so ____5____ at that time that my mind went blank without any response but to cry. My dad ran to her and yelled her name but she was still unconscious, ____6____ he sent her to the nearest hospital as fast as he could. After an all-round check, the doctor said with ____7____ to my dad that she had got diagnosed with brain cancer in the late period. That evening he didn’t say anything.
My mom ____8____ and would never come back to me anymore. I managed to live by myself but the flow of sorrow and ____9____ to her never stopped. My dad has to ____10____ a role of a breadwinner as well as a household wife. He behaved just as usual, but I found that he developed a(n) ____11____ of cutting onions, which was really strange. Every time I saw him cutting onions, I discovered that several drops of ____12____ flowed over his flush cheek.
“Why are you ____13____?”
“No, it’s because of the stimulant from the onions”
“I have learned from a science book that if you cut onions in the water, you will not cry.” I said with satisfaction.
“Oh, really? Thank you, my little love.” was my dad’s ____14____. But next time, when he cut onions in the basin full of water, his eyes still ____15____ with tears. “Why?” I said to myself with too much ____16____.
Now, I grow up, and my father ____17____ does so as he did before. What a white and fancy but moving ____18____ my father had made in those years. The ____19____ my mom’s death brings to my whole family is so deeply rooted in his heart.
Now, he still believes that I have been taken in by his white lie. Mom, you will never be lonely in the heaven as there is a middle-aged man devoting what remains of his life to ____20____ you and weep not once for you.