1、Laughter and tears are parts of living. But do you find enough time for laughter? I am not asking if you  36  lots of good times.  37  we should laugh during the happy times. But do you also laugh during the  38  times?

Erma Bombeck  39  her humorous books, but she wrote one that  40  a more serious topic: cancer in children. Erma talks with many children with cancer and learns  41  life lessons from them. She learns, for instance, that cancer survivors know  42  to laugh.

She  43  the experience of 15-year-old Jessica from Burlington. Jessica’s leg was cut off at the knee because of cancer. She was learning to  44  a prosthesis （假肢）. Jessica tells about playing  45  . She kicked the ball  46  and it flew off in one  47  while her artificial leg flew another way. She fell on the  48  and laughed.

Jessica may not have laughed about her cancer, but she laughed about handling the  49  of it. And her laughter helped her deal.

There is the story of 17-year-old Betsy. She  50  her way to the radiation room for her regular radiation therapy. As  51  , she dropped her hospital gown and, wore only her birthday suit,   52  onto the table and waited. The extra people in the room were not the medical students she had thought, but  53  painters giving an estimate on painting! Betsy laughs heartily about the incident. And like Jessica, her  54  to laugh helped her to deal with one of the most difficult things a young person can endure ― cancer.

Do you find plenty of  55  for laughter? You can ... if you also find reasons to laugh during the especially difficult times.

Survivors know how to laugh. If you can laugh even when the going is rough, you’ll make it. And you’ll smile at the end.