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One morning, the door opened and a new teacher, Mrs Cosby, walked in. She looked too 1 to handle us. And we surely gave her a 2 time, but she never lost her temper. And then came the last day of the first month. She 3 a bunch of papers. We feared the worst — a test. But oh no, it was something that 4 surprised us.

Mrs Cosby asked us to come to the front of the class, and gave each of us a 5, in which she had written what the student in question had been 6 at during the last month.

You see no one had ever 7 us. No one ever liked us. We were constantly told how good-for-nothing we were. And here, 8, was someone who had been 9 us closely for a month. We made things as difficult for her as we could. And yet she could find something 10 to say about each of us.

Mrs Cosby did this every 11 from then on. Each month we got a paper that emphasized our 12. She commented on my courage, how punctual I was, how good to 13 arguments if I wanted. Her 14 influenced our class. We did not want to 15 her feelings anymore. We actually started to 16.

At the graduation ceremony, Mrs Cosby hugged us and told us with tears in her eyes how 17 she was of us. Then she 18 each one of us a book. All the encouraging letters through the years wee there, in hard covers.

She said, "I want you each to keep this book and if you feel 19, open this and read how good you are. You can be anything you want to be 20 you believe in yourself. Promise me you'll remember that!"