The phone rang once, twice-then someone picked it up. "You got the wrong number! "a man's voice said before the line went 1 .
But I called again. "I said you got the wrong number!" came the voice. Once more the phone clicked in my 2 .
How could he know I had a wrong number? So I 3 a third time. The man said. "Is that you again?" "Yeah, it's me. " I answered. "I wonder how you knew I had the wrong number before I even said nothing. " "None of my business. You 4 it out!" He hung up the phone again.
I sat there for a short time and then called the man back. "Have you 5 it yet?" he asked. "The only thing I can think of is. . 6 ever calls you. " "You got it!" The phone died for the fourth time.
I rang him again. "Well, I thought maybe I should 7 you. " He began to laugh and told me, "My name is Adolf Meth. I'm 88 years old, and I haven't had so many wrong numbers in one day in 20 years!" We both laughed. We talked for ten minutes. Then we discovered we had something in 8 . Adolf had no family, no friends, just like me. Everyone he had been 9 to had died.
Since then, we became phone friends. We called each other almost every day. And I told him about my life and my 10 .
On one phone about a disagreement that I'd had with my boss, I told him, "I think I 11 have it out with him. "
Adolf said, "Let things 12 down. When you get as old as I am, you will find out that time 13 everything. If things get 14 then you can talk to him. "
"You know, " he said softly one day, "I'm talking to you just the way I'd talk to a boy of my own. I always wanted a family and children. "
One morning, I received a call to tell me he had died the night before. With tears in eyes, I heard him asking why I wanted to call him again and again. "Because you 15 to me, Adolf. . . because I was your friend. " I said in a low voice, "I didn't get the wrong number at all. I got you. "
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We've all heard the stories of an actor's struggles before a career breakthrough: living a hard life, working part time, being a couch potato before getting that major role. Shelby, the star of "A Dog's Way Home", has a hard-luck experience that could top them all. Before her big break, she was living in a landfill, rooting through garbage for her next meal.
Shelby's big break came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was driving in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Out on an unrelated call, Buhler noticed an obviously scared puppy emerging from the trash so she knelt down, just saying, "Oh, come here, baby. "Shelby was so scared, but she came right up to Buhler. The pair headed to the county animal shelter, where the staff began calling the new resident Baby Girl.
Buhler and others didn't know that 3, 200 kilometers away, Hollywood was looking for a dog to play Bella in a film written by Cathryn Michon. The find-a-Bella job went to a trainer Teresa Ann Miller. Her job was to search shelters nationwide for a dog that could play Bella. One day, Miller spotted Baby Girl's adoption photo. "Honestly, it was a really good picture and she was smiling, "Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and tested her on personality and the ability to respond to simple orders. She then adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, renamed her Shelby and took her to California for training. Miller and Shelby trained for just over three months before filming began. Then they were together each day on the filming set.
Most of the film's reviews have praised Shelby's performance. Yariefy made the comments "an amazing dog, perfect performance!"
Shelby has come a long way from the garbage dump. But Buhler said when she saw Shelby recently, she just needed only a second to compare the movie star with the dog she found from piles of trash. "She's exactly the same. " Buhler said.
Sherry Gao is pouring coffee made from Yunnan beans, hoping that her coffee shop in the city of Pasadena, California introduces you to your new favorite coffee and turns your opinions about Chinese coffee beans upside down.
☆ But Gao hopes that throwing light on Yunnan-sourced coffee could expose customers to the coffee-producing region and help to break down prejudice (偏见) against the beans, which for tens of years were mostly used for instant products.
"We wanted to highlight Chinese coffee because a lot of people never had Chinese coffee before, " Gao said. "Some have the prejudice that it's bad or cheap, but that's not the case anymore. It's been changing so much over the last decade. " Recent producing process, such as the addition of fruit, is leading Yunnan's coffee to better results. "Every time a new product comes in, it tastes better than the last one, " Gao said.
Farmers in China have grown tea for more than 3, 000 years, but coffee has been grown there for only about a century in fewer areas. There was an uptick in the 1980s with government's efforts. And the turn of the century and the 2010s saw a sharp growth with international companies investing (投资) in the coffee planting. But in the last 10 to 15 years, tastes and need for special and high-grade coffees appeared, especially from local growers and shops. The domestic (国内的) demand for China-grown coffee has risen so rapidly that Gao says it's now much more expensive.
To further connect with the community, Gao hopes to hold classes for Yunnan coffee introduction. After all, she says, the Yunnan coffee tastes excellent when made in one's own kitchen with a pour-over system. She hopes it's only a matter of time before Yunnan coffee becomes popular among the homemade coffee lovers.
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There were actors performing Qinqiang Opera at the Tang Paradise on February 5th, 2023. Tang Paradise (lie) in the south of Xi'an. It is a large cultural theme park showing the lifestyle of the Tang Dynasty. Qinqiang Opera came from the a folk songs and dances of the people in Shanxi and Gansu province It is one of the longest-life forms of opera in China. According to historical records, the local opera d all the way back to the Qin Dynasty. Qinqiang Opera is a reflection of ancient Chinese people's daily lives and feelings.
However, the development of pop and Western music i Qinqiang Opera deep in the 1990s. During this difficult time, many Qinqiang Opera actors had no (choose) but to leave the opera stage where they performed. They then took on several jobs to make a living, including working as businessmen, r clothing shops and acting in small film roles.
Qinqiang Opera was (list) as a national-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006. It has a great influence the development of Qinqiang Opera. About ten years ago, the audiences were m old people. Now lots of young audiences p in and Qinqiang Opera performances are warmly welcomed. The number of young performers has increased as well.
The revival of Qinqiang Opera really reflected our cultural development.
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How to Keep a Good Relationship with Parents
Nowadays, many students can't get on well with their parents. And this is really a common problem
For Li Pengfei, a resident of Hebei Province, fitness used to be the last thing on his mind. But his poor health resulting from obesity (pushed him to choose a new and healthier lifestyle. He joined the e-fitness trend. But his family didn't have much faith in it at first. However, Li stuck to it. Virtual sports communities are made up of users on the same app. In these groups, people share their photos and performances to motivate each other. "Exercise was like a real chore for me in the beginning. But the encouragement of other people builds up my inner strength. "
Changchun has witnessed the appearance of a special type of stores recently. Instead of using money to buy goods, people can exchange their used items for things like books and food ingredients. Inside one such store, a poster on the wall features the amount of carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) that can be reduced for every recycled item such as a cardboard box. Residents can also take anything they no longer need to the store to trade them for points, and then use these to exchange goods. 
Recently, The Clear Plate program in China is focusing on the issue of food waste. After a meal, users take photos of their clean plates, post these in a social media platform WeChat, collect points once the image is recognized by the artificial intelligence, and then turn their points into gifts or charity donations, programmers explained. "For our parents, they can still recall the days without food. ‘Clearing your plate' is about saving some food for a rainy day. For us young adults, it is a green and low-carbon lifestyle. "