Bible has a great influence on English language and literature.

After Dad was____, we looked around the____house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so____all the stuff(东西) left. Like so many of their generation,my parents____everything. And like many in my generation, we faced anxious____about what to abandon and what to keep.

As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every____my parents ever saw, I also____many hidden treasures. Mom's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it,____her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War II veteran(退伍兵) and a world traveler,____everything -- from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the____. The letters he wrote during the war____his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I____our old kitchen table, which brought back____of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.

I'm realizing all these things____my parents' life journey. Each time I go to____, I find something that reminded me of my childhood or teaches me something about my parents I____knew.____, from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.