One day, my mother was ill so I had to go to the market on my own. I decided to take some candles with me and see if I could sell them. They were sold out in twenty minutes! The next week, my Mum 【小题1】 me some money to buy some wax（蜡）to make more candles. They were sold 【小题2】 really quickly, too.

Nine months later, we decided to stop selling flowers. My Mum and I couldn’t make enough candles during the week, so some of my school friends started to help us. I paid them one pound for every candle, and we used to sell them for three or four times that. It was fun and my friends worked with me in the market.

At the age of 22, my uncle 【小题3】 me some money and I opened my first shop in Portobello Road. Since then, I’ve never looked back, even in difficulties. In the first store, we only sold candles, but now we sell 【小题4】 from designer furniture to paintings. Oh, and candles, of course.