I believe in miracles(奇迹)because I've seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a36in my upper jaw,” she said. “I told my own dentist it's nothing, but he 37I come to see you.”
Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would38to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the39of her mouth. A careful examination later40that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.
During her next appointment, I explained to her the41of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just42. ”
I thought otherwise. After considerable 43on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to 44me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon(外科医生). She saw him, but as I expected,45treatment.
About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and 46.
“How are you?” I asked.
“I’m just fine, honey,” she responded47high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures(假牙)?”
Surprised to see her at all, I answered48, “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it.”
I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had49nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness50.
I had read of such things happening, but had51seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I've seen many others, because they keep getting52to see. In fact, miracles are daily s for me now. And people are a miracle,53through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to 54the miracles of one another.
Since my first miracle, I've come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is 55 we choose to find it.
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