【全国英语等级考试三级】Unit 1 个人情况与人们（6）

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Unit 1 Personal Identification and people个人情况与人们
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EMT
Fire/EMT
NellieWhen I became a volunteer EMT, my friends were puzzled. They knew me to be deeply terrified of sick and dying people. If there was an accident on the road. I tucked my head in my hands to avoid seeing blood or broken glass.
My husband and I had been married 30 years. We loved travel, read and write. But at age 52, I felt stuck in a midlife funk, cut off from others. Passing the local firehouse one day, I saw a sign: "volunteers wanted : Fire/EMT." The EMT part pointed to everything cowardly in me - my fear of death and disease. Maybe I could help others if I did this and could also save myself by facing what scare me most.
As the times goes by, I was able to work through my fear. Now I understand that the closest I have ever felt to God is in the back of an ambulance. When I rash out to help sick strangers, I am a part of something larger than myself. Sometimes I truly to connect someone who I would never have met otherwise - as I did with Nellie.