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It was my first day at Grade 6. And the first lesson was boring English. When I was doing nothing, Mr Gough, our new English teacher,      into the classroom.
To my     , he held up a book, The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe, and asked if anyone had read it. I put my       up, because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr Gough asked      I really understood what the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile, and he asked me to   an essay on that subject.
After that, English classes became a new     for me. Mr Gough thought that students had to act out a play to understand it. “Don’t just    it,” he said.
As time passed, we    a real friendship. He encouraged me to be a writer in the future. When I left school, he said to me, “You have a gift, Tony, and one day you’ll come to      how useful it is. Make use of it if you want your life to be complete.”。
Years have passed. Now, every time I sit down to write something new, I think of Mr Gough. He was
  than just an English teacher, because he also taught me useful lessons in life.