When my husband and I got married, he worked as a mechanic (机修工) from midnight to 8 a.m. However, I worked during the 1So as he came home from work each morning, I was getting ready to2.

    We had very little3 then, so when Valentine's Day(情人节) came around that first year, I knew we couldn't 4 anything for each other. After he left to go to work the night before Valentine's Day, I decided to5 and make a Valentine's Day card for him. I 6 wrote a poem on the front of the card. When he came home the next 7 I felt foolish as I handed him the card8 that he wouldn't laugh at it. When he had finished9 it, he slowly raised his head and looked at me. Then he reached down into his pocket. When he pulled his10out, he was holding11

    He told me that he had12 it for me during his lunch hour, but he had been 13to give it to me because he thought I might think it was14and that I might laugh at it.

    It was a small heart made out of aluminum (铝)15I had stayed up all night making him a valentine card, he had been cutting out a16 for me. I still have the aluminum heart, and I17 it in my desk. Every time I see it, all those 18come flooding back to me. Over the years, we've been able to buy each other very nice19 presents for Valentine's Day. But none has ever been as dear or20 as much as those handmade gifts made from our hearts the first year that we were married.