Freshmen in high school can be cruel and we certainly were to a young man named Matt who was in my class.We teased（取笑） him about his       .He was at least fifty pounds overweight.He felt the pain of being the last one       to play basketball or football.Matt will always remember the endless       that were played on him.
One day he sat near me in gym class.Someone          him and he fell on me and knocked my foot quite             .With the whole class watching，I chose to fight in order to keep my image intact (not spoiled).I             , “C’mon, Matt, let’s fight!” He said he didn’t want to.But he had to come toward me with his fists（拳头）in the          .I bloodied his nose with one hit and the class went      .Just then the gym teacher walked into the room.He saw us fighting and he     us out to the running track.
He followed us with a             on his face and said, “I want you two guys to go out there and run that mile holding each other’s hands.” The           exploded into laughter.The two of us felt             beyond belief, but Matt and I went out to the track and ran our mile — hand in hand.
At some point during the             of our run, I remember looking over at him, with blood             trickling（滴） from his nose and his weight              him down.I suddenly realized that here was a(n)            , not all that different from myself.We both             each other and began to laugh.In time we became good friends.
Going around that track, hand in hand, I no longer saw Matt as fat or             .He was a human being.I found it              after I was told to go hand in hand with someone for only one mile.For the rest of my             I have never so much as raised a hand against another person.

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