A serious car crash leads one woman to rediscover her faith in human kindness.
In March last year, the car I was driving was__1__in a serious crash with another car on a country
road. I soon__2__myself at the centre of a frenzy of activity, surrounded by paramedics, police, rescuers
and members of the local community. An enormous can opener was used to__3__me out of my wrecked car and__4__an ambulance.
Over the next eight hours, I was transported to hospital, dragged up, Xrayed and diagnosed (诊断)
with a broken neck. Knowing that I"d__5 death by a fraction of a second sustained me throughout the
long wait in the emergency ward and__6__me to deal with the visible distress of my hospital visitors.
Only after I"d convinced the last friend to__7 could I direct my energies inwards. Flitting in and out
of my line of vision during my hospital__8__was the Red Cross lady, a gentle__9__in white who, from
time to time, popped her head in to__10__cups of tea. After the visitors had gone, she ventured further
into my cubicle to__11__if I was all right.
I found myself__12__her everything: about the shock of the__13__, my feats for my family as a
result of my injuries-about my whole life. While I__14__for an ambulance to transport me to another
hospital, she stood by my trolley and__15__my hand as I offloaded all the emotion I"d stoically withheld (强忍着的) from my family. She__16__, quiet and nonjudgmental.
Even now, the__17__that I have her contact details provides me with great__18__. I look forward
to a day in the nottoodistant future when my guardian angel and I can meet again, in__19__circumstances.
In times of crisis, faith can sustain us: for me, my faith in human nature, reawakened by the__20__of
a stranger, has helped ease my journey back to recovery.
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