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I want to share with you one story about my friend, Josh. When I argue with my parents, I return to the story he told me and try to [ ] at once. Once he had a serious conflict with his father. His father asked him to come home earlier and help him about the house. Josh knew that his father was a [ ] person, but he ignored him and went for a walk with his friend. No one could convince Tom, he was [ ]. Surely, that situation caused [ ]problems. Luckily, Tom understood that it was his fault and tried to have an [ ] with his father. That was a good lesson and he [ ]. From that time he has never had [ ] with his father.
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Hello, Judy. I'm so glad I've finally found a spare minute to write to you about my life. First of all I need to tell you that we had a [ ] with my granddad from Australia. He is a [ ] now and needs to be looked after. I [ ] to bring him back to England. But he turned out to be a person who is not easy to please, with a disagreeable temper. And his character was the [ ] of [ ] that we could come across almost every time we talked. Even doing some [ ] separately, he would come to tell me what he is not satisfied with. It was a real [ ] as even my husband was one of the [ ] to our [ ]. And one day I [ ] my mind to talk to the granddad about the things that bothered him, about all the [ ] that we had. I listened to him very carefully, without interrupting and came to a conclusion that it was a generation [ ] between us. From that day I try to understand the causes of his actions and behaviours. Now I know that I can [ ] his demands, and that he just [ ] my kind attitude towards him. Now I can say that he is a wonderful man and a mine of wisdom.
How are you doing?
I miss you so much, hope to see you soon. I heard you were planning to come to England!