I’ve spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that1is an occupational disease. But one year, my2gave me the cure for my homesickness.
It had black bright eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet--- a stuffed penguin (企鹅) that3about five inches tall. Attached to its left wing4a little sign with the hand-painted declaration “ I Love My Dad!”. I immediately5the penguin on my table.
On my next trip, I put the6in my suitcase. That night when I called home, my daughter Jeanine was7because the penguin had disappeared. “Honey, he’s here with me,” I explained, “ I brought him8”.
9, the penguin came with me --- as necessary as my briefcase. And we10along the way. In Albuquerque, I checked into a11, dropped my bag and ran to a meeting. When I returned, the maid had12the bed and stood the penguin on the pillow.
One night, I discovered the penguin13, and after a mad phone call, I learned I’d14it in my previous hotel room,15it had been rescued by a maid. I16a hundred miles to get it, and when I arrived at midnight, the penguin was waiting at the front desk. In the hotel lobby (大厅), other tired business travelers were17at the reunion of my penguin and me --- I think with a touch of18.
Jeanine is in college now, and I don’t travel19. The penguin sits on my table, a reminder that love is a wonderful traveling companion. All those years on20, it was the one thing I never left home without.
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