I may be a bit old school but I think that people who store all of their pictures on their smart phones are missing out on something. There is ______（10）like seeing a loved one’s smiling face looking down on you from a picture frame on your wall. It is both ______（11）and reassuring, almost like they are watching______（12）you while you work at your desk.

As I work at my own desk I can see my Mom’s picture smiling down on me. She left us too soon. She was only 55 years old when cancer ______（13）her. If one’s years here were ______（14）on merit then she should have lived to be over 100.

My Dad’s kind smile is ______（15）hers. It has only been a few years since he passed. Sometimes I still ______（16）the telephone wanting to call him and tell him something that has just happened to me only to remember that he is gone.

My Nana’s picture is there too, ______（17）the 90 years young sign at her birthday party 16 years ago. How I wish I ______（18）walk into her kitchen again, have a talk, and ______（19）a big slice of homemade Italian bread with her.

Sometimes looking at these pictures gives me a ______（20）of melancholy and sadness. I still miss them all and I don’t feel ______（21）to be the oldest generation yet. Most of the time, ______（22）, I only feel the warmth and joy that comes from a million loving memories ______（23）these pictures bring back.

It makes me feel ______（24）knowing that I had them all in my life for the years that I did. It makes me want to follow their loving example ______（25）in my own life as well.

A lot of people say that you have to have a ______（26）heart to get through life. Others say a soft heart is better. I myself think that a strong heart is best. We need a heart that loves through the ______（27）. We need a heart that keeps loving ______（28）when we ______（29）the people we love the most.