We may look at the world around us

We may look at the world around us, but somehow we manage not to see it until whatever we’ve become used to suddenly disappears. __1 _, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I __2 _ to see -- or look at -- on my way to work each morning.

For three years, no matter __3 _ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On __4 _ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime __5 _ out neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. __6 _, she was an ordinary working woman. Of course, I __7__ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how __8__ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I __9__ her.

"Did she have an accident? Something __10 ?" I thought to myself about her _11 _. Now that she was gone, I felt I had __12 her. I began to realize that part of our _13 _ life probably includes such chance meetings with familiar _14 _: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who _15 _ walks her dog along the street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are _16 _ markers in our lives. They add weight to our _17 of place and belonging.

Think about it. _18 _ while walking to work, we mark where we are by _19__ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though _20 _ person?

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