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It’s hard to be an astronaut’s son. Everyone expects you to be ____ . I’m jut a normal eleven-year- old kid. My father is so good at everything. I often wonder ____ my father ever had a son like me.

One morning, my teacher announced a ____ Day essay（散文）competition for the whole school. What would I ____ ? My father is an astronaut I would start out with that. No. I decided I wouldn’t do that. The whole country and maybe even the whole ____ saw my father as an astronaut, ____ that wasn’t the way I saw him.

How did I ____ my father? Hmm.

I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I was little and had a nightmare. I saw him teaching me how to throw a baseball.

I remembered him hugging me for hours when my dog was killed by a car. And I remembered how he ____ me with a new little dog at my eighth birthday party. These were the things I was going to write about my dad. To me, he wasn’t ____ a world-famous astronaut, he was my dad.

On Thursday night, the winning essays would be ____ in the hall with all the parents and students present. When the third prize was announced and it wasn’t me. I was relieved and ____ at the same time. Then the second prize. It was me! I went up to the stage and read my essay “My Father’s Son.” I watched my parents as I read.

When I finished reading, the audience（观众）applauded（鼓掌）. I saw my father blowing his nose. Tears were running down my mother’s ____ . Dad ____ his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder, “Son, this is the proudest moment of my life. ”

It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll ____ be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just then, it was ____ just to be my father’s son.