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Everyone has a childhood and childhood experiences are often very 1. ____ (interest). Children often make us laugh.
I often remember my childhood, the years 2. ______ many funny things happened. When I was a two-year-old child, both my parents were always very busy3.______ their work. My mother worked as4.______ sales manager in a company while my father served in the army. So I 5._____ (live) with my grandma in a village. I was always waiting for my parents at home. Once my father sent us a photo of 6.______ ( he ) in a soldier’s uniform, which 7.____ (post) on the table reminding me of him.
Once my mother came to see me and we were 8._____ (go) to the downtown together. On the way we saw a group of9.____ (soldier). And when I saw them, I became very excited. I shouted in a big voice, “This is my father; that one is my father; and he is my father, too…”
Hearing this, my mother laughed and said10.______ she would remember that moment all her life.
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When Charles Stratton was five, he stopped growing．His mother took him to see the famous showman, P．T．Barnum．Mr.．Barnum thought a small person would be the perfect addition to his show．He hired Charles' parents along with him, and they traveled the world together.
He gave the two-foot-tall Charles a name, General Tom Thumb． He taught Tom how to sing, dance, act and tell jokes．When he felt Tom was ready to perform on stage, he made up ads．To stir up great interest, he said that Tom was eleven years old and had come from England.
During the show, Tom fought battles pretendedly with tall people．He also danced upon a wooden plate held by a person who was eight feet tall．Tom's act was very popular and brought in a lot of money．By the time Tom was an adult, he had grown very rich．He had become a billionaire at the age of twenty five.
Fortunately for Tom, Mr.．Barnum added more little people to his show, and Tom became lucky in love as well．One of the little people was Lavinia Warren, a schoolteacher．Tom was able to win her love, and they married.
The ceremony and reception were the talk of the town．They were attended by many rich and famous people and by about 2000 guests．Crowds filled the streets of New York to have a look at their tiny wedding marriage．The couple even met with President Abraham Lincoln on their honeymoon just before going to live in Tom's house in Connecticut.