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My wife Pat and I were having drinks outside our home. The weather was unusually   41   for March in Mississippi. There was barely any breeze. After we finished  the second cup, flashes of   42   danced across the sky. When the first drops of rain drove us  43  , the phone rang. Pat’s face   44   on that gray and hot day. It was our son, David, a helicopter pilot who   45   in the US Air Force in South Korea. David intended to sound   46  , but we recognized  the sign of homesickness from his voice.  47  , the power  of conversation made us feel   48  , until  a crash shook the windows.

David wondered what it was.“ Just thunder,” Pat said.

There were several seconds of silence. “ David,” I asked, “ are you   49   there?”

“ Yes …apart from the two of you, do you know what else I   50   most? Thunder. We have rain, wind, and   51   here, but it never thunders. Remember? Dad, when I was a kid, you laughed me out of fear of thunder? I wish I were there to   52   with you now.”

“ Yes…” I said, trying to   53   my tears. On hanging up the phone, I told Pat, “I’m going to record  our son some   54  .” “ Bob, the neighbors will think you’re crazy.”

“ David won’t,” I said and went outside with a recorder. Later I   55   the tape to David with a single line: A   56   gift.

David called again. “Dad,” he said, “ you won’t believe that some friends and I had a thunder party where we realized  we were listening to the sounds of   57  . Thanks, Dad! It was really  a special present.” While David was in Korea, we found ourselves   58   thunderstorms.  59    feeling blue, we regarded the thunder as special which let us know that wherever we might be, we were   60   together as a family.

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41-45 C B D B A      46-50 D B D A B     51-55 C C B D C    56-60 B D A C C

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