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Something happened today that made me realize how much love I have in my house and I am so thankful for it.
My husband used to work in a bank but during the crisis he
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his job. The economy wasn"t good and he hadn"t many
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to get another bank job. We were hoping and praying that he would be offered a position.
He got a job and it brought us a feeling of pride. We were able to
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our mortgage and buy our groceries; but money was still very
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, so he found another job making deliveries from Monday to Thursday.
He has been working so hard that I wanted to make it an extra
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Christmas this year. I wanted our house to be filled with
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—I didn"t want anybody to be alone this year. I finally got round to getting the Christmas tree out yesterday and I worked all day to make the house look
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.
When my husband came home at 8 p.m. he looked
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. Seeing the house he broke up the biggest smile, grabbed me and gave me a huge hug. Then he apologized for not being able to help me. He said he knew it was hard on me because he didn"t get
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and he was grateful that I had not complained.
He was apologizing for working so hard to feed us and keep a
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over our heads! He was doing two jobs that made much less than his previous job and coming home exhausted. I had no words to tell him how much I loved him and how proud I was of him and that he was such a great husband and father and provider for us.
With this amount of love in our house—we will always have more than "enough".
【正确答案】
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【答案解析】[解析] 由but可知这里表示转折,又由“during the crisis”可知,由于经济危机,她的丈夫失去了工作,lost job表示“失去工作”。