another，bad，borrow，different，imagine，laugh，lend，since，similar，surprise，while，write

Once again，I was at a new school.So was a girl in my class named Paris.That was where the（1）

similarities

similarities

ended.I was tall and she was small.I was one of the oldest in the class（2）

while

while

she was the youngest.My hair was thick，short and ugly.Hers was long and beautiful.I was shy.She wasn't.I couldn't stand her，seeing as her my enemy（敵人）.But she wanted us to be friends.
   One day，she invited me over and I said yes – I was too（3）

surprised

surprised

to say no.Actually，no one had invited me over to play before.But this girl wanted to see me.She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room apartment with her big family.When we got to the room she shared with her sister，she took out a big case of Barbies，which was really surprising.I had never played with them.But we sat on the floor（4）

laughing

laughing

as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies.That's when we found out that we both wanted to be（5）

writers

writers

when we were older.Because we both had a wild（6）

imagination

imagination

.We had a great time that afternoon.
   Paris was popular in the whole neighborhood.The bookstore owners（7）

lent

lent

her fashion magazines，the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices.Soon I was included in her magic world.We slept over at each（8）

other's

other's

houses and spent every free moment together.I let my hair grow out and learned to love being tall.
   Paris，my first real friend（9）

since

since

childhood，helped me get through my hard teenage years and taught me an amazing thing about making friends：Your "（10）

worst

worst

enemy" can turn out to be your best friend.