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Most kids want gifts from their parents on their birthdays, but Cameron doesn’t. On his birthday, he gives his mom a gift. He 1 doing this in his first year of junior high school. That year, during one class, he watched a video about how a baby is pushed from its mother’s body. After class, 2. How brave a woman is to have a baby! Thank God I’ll never have to do that!
When Cameron came home that day, he held his mom in his arms for a long time. He decided that his birthday 3. During those nine months inside his mom, he just ate and slept while his mom was doing all the hard work. So why should he get a birthday gift for doing nothing? If anyone should get a gift on his birthday, it should be his mom.
The 4 “birthday gift” Cameron prepared was a bag of cookies he baked. The cookies tasted so bad, but his mom said they were the best thing she ever got. Hearing that 5. It was so much better than getting a gift. Now, on his birthday every year, Cameron makes a gift for his mother to thank her for giving him life.
This year, Cameron 6 his mom a nice dress. A few months ago, he learned to make dresses at school and decided to make one for his mom. Now the dress is finished and hanging behind Cameron’s bedroom door. He believes the gift will tell his mother how much he loves her.