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Kindness is not always a straight line. I was traveling in a city of Central America with a friend, and we were __1__ a post office. We were standing on a street corner and did not know what the Spanish word for “post office” was. Some __2__ guy could see we were __3__ and came up to us. We tried to __4__ what we were looking for, and he said, “Oh, yes, yes,” and __5__ us, with our backpacks on in the middle of the heat of the day, down all these little crooked(弯曲的) streets. It seemed like we walked for miles. __6__, he pointed us toward a __7__ without any name on it. But when we __8__, it turned out not to be the post office.
When we came out and were __9__ standing around looking __10__, someone else soon came up. She asked if we __11__ help. Again, we tried to explain __12__ we were going. The woman said she __13__ where the post office was. We headed off as she __14__ us to another building which also had no __15__ and which also turned out not to be the post office.
At this point we decided that __16__ we didn't know where we were, we were not going to listen to anybody else. But then another person came up and said, “I can __17__ you.” We said “No, thank you,” __18__ he was very insistent(坚持的). He actually grabbed me by the hand and dragged(拉着) me through the