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After 22 years of marriage，I have discovered the secret to keep love alive in my relationship with my wife，Peggy. I started dating another woman.
One day Peggy said to me，“Life is too__1__，and you need to spend time with the people you love. You probably won’t believe me，but I know you love her and I think that if you spend more time with her，it will make us__2__.”
The “other” woman my wife was encouraging me to__3__is my mother，a 72yearold widow who has lived alone since my father__4__20 years ago. Right after his death，I__5__2,500 miles away to California and started my own life and career. When I moved back near my hometown six years ago，I promised myself that I would spend more time with my mom. But with the__6__of my job and three kids，I never got around to seeing her much__7__family gettogethers and holidays.
Mom was__8__and suspicious when I called and suggested the two of us go out to dinner and a movie.
We didn’t go anywhere __9__，just a neighboring place where we could talk.__10__her eyes now see only large shapes and shadows，I had to read the menu for her.
“I used to be the__11__when you were little，” she said.
