For instance, something 1) _________ about my father was how he had 2) ___________ upon me from 3)__________ to love books and reading. In fact, this 4)___________ into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned. My love of books never 5)____________ and later led me toward writing books myself. So many times I have felt 6)_________ when exposed to modern children so immersed in the 7)__________ media that they have little or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered in books. I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country town’s grammar school with a prayer over his 8)__________ students.I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers. In the letter to my grandmother, I 9) ________ her of a 10)________ ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and 11)__________ of others. I thanked her for the years of eating her good cooking, the 12)__________ of which I had not found since. Finally, I thanked her simply for 13) ______________________ my life with stardust. Before I slept, my three letters went into our ship’s office mail sack. They got mailed when we reached Tulgai Island. We 14) ______________________ , reloaded with something else, then again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us, and as the days became weeks, my little 15) ______________________ receded. Sometimes, when we were at sea, a mail ship would 16) ______________________ mail from home, which, of course, we 17) ______________________