Jayce Crowder began noticing when he was in kindergarten that he looked different from his classmates. They had two 1. He had one.
It started when one boy 2 at him, said his mother, Cortney Lewis. He returned home with 3: Why am I different? Why me? Why? Lewis 4 she didn't know what to do at that point. How could she provide answers to her son's questions when she had never found those 5 herself?
A few weeks later, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV to a
6 story about Trashaun Willis, then 14. He had become an Internet hit after
7 videos of his slam dunks (扣篮), and, like Jayce, he was 8 most of his left arm. At the time, it seemed that 9 Trashaun would simply be an 10 moment for Jayce. He'd see a role model with a similar defect (缺陷). Then a family friend 11 the Des Moines Register, asking the newspaper to help set up a 12 with Trashaun to build
Jayce's 13.
The boys met at Washington Middle School a couple of months later and
14 bonded at first sight, because both of them had the same problem. The day was not spent 15 themselves in self-pity — it was 16 fun. Trashaun also told the boy not to let anyone's 17 shake his confidence.
18 that meeting, Lewis has seen a(n) 19 difference in her son, who is now in second grade. He recently started wrestling and loves it. Lewis points to Trashaun's 20. As for Trashaun, his relationship with Jayce made him look forward to helping more kids in the future.
