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My mom is a great cook. Things about the things she cooked made my mouth    41   . But when putting a beef steak in her pan, she   42     into the anti-cook. She could turn the best beef into something with the flavor of shoe leather.

Yesterday my brother Bud took me out for lunch and   43    steaks. I wasn’t    44  , but since he was paying I figured I could choke down a few   45   . When the waitress served our steaks, I was     46    at how good they smelled. Mom’s steak never   47  like that. The first bite was a wonderful flavor. Suddenly I   48    why others spoke of steak fondly.

“You know,” I said to Bud, patting my   49    contentedly(满足地). “I used to think Mom was a great cook. But it’s hard to believe her steak come from the same   50    as these steaks.”

“Mom is a great cook,” Bud said. “But think about it. She    51   during the Great Depression.” That’s when she learned to cook.  52   do you think they had steak? Probably never. It’s only been recently that they could  53   to buy steak. It’s just that she hasn’t had a lot of   54   cooking steak.

It suddenly   55   to me that nobody was perfect. Sandy Koufax was a great pitcher(投手), but he still   56   87 games. Luciano Pavarotti was a great singer, but he occasionally   57    with his lower register(音域). Our strengths have elements of weakness. That is why great athletes still   58        and great actors still rehearse(排练). Because when it comes to it, greatness isn’t something we are; It is something we   59  . And that process of becoming includes learning and growing through both     60    and failure.

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