My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk£¬ but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was ___1___ in hospital. By the time he was eight£¬ you wouldn‘t know he has a problem when you saw him ___2___.

    Children in our neighborhood always ran around ___3___ their play£¬ and Joey would jump and ran and play£¬ ___4___. We never told him that he probably wouldn‘t be ___5___ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

    In ___6___ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others£¬ ___7___ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the ___8___. We didn‘t tell him he probably would never make the team£¬ so he didn’t know.