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    Do you like going to the movies? Most of the1 in high schools like movies very much.  Last Sunday I went to a school and asked some students2their favorite movies.3of their answers were really interesting. Here are their likes and4:

    Jim, a 5 boy, likes watching thrillers because they are scary6exciting. His classmate, Kate, can't stand documentaries. She told me they were7 parents. But she really likes comedies because they are funny. Jack is a big boy. He said he8mind documentaries. But he doesn't like comedies9they are boring! And the coolest movies are action movies. Everyone 10 them very much!

Hungry for Home

     If my life were a1, I would fast-forward through senior high. My senior years were 2. Like every junior high kid, I was3 with who I was and how I would4 in life.

     I tried and failed in a number of things I wanted to excel in sports but had not yet5that would never happen. I remember being 6 by most of my peers and being cut from the basketball team and7 to play football. To be loved and accepted seemed to me at the time something I could never,8 , achieve.

     During that time I went through the cafeteria line and ate alone, feeling unloved and 9One day I 10 that I had no one to eat with. Mom said to me, "If you want, you can come home for 11 ." As soon as the bell 12 at noon and I left the school and ran home that day my mom sat across the13 for about 15 minutes and looked at me and listened to me and three 14 later I still remember those times with 15. She just paid attention to me.

     I now know that I didn't need my 16 filled as much as I needed my emotional fuel tank refilled. I just needed a17 place of warm acceptance for a few minutes a day. Now you know a little more about how I18 home.

Home is a place where you don't have to 19 alone and eat. Home is a place where people don't20 you and avoid you.