People always would ask me："Is he a trick or a treat？"You see，for me，Halloween was not just a day when I got
(1) ．It turned out to be the day that I got my little brother．
It was October 1984．I made my mother sew （缝制） me a pig
(2) with a curly tail on the back and my father bought me a pig snout （猪嘴） to wear．On October 31，my dad took me around our
(3) trick-or-treating．
I was a little
(4) that my mother wasn't coming since she always had
(5) us in the past，but over the past few
(6) my mother had been acting very
(7) ．She had started to get
(8) ，which was odd since my mom had always been so skinny．In the last few weeks，she had gotten so fat that she had to
(9) in bed．My dad seemed very
(10) that she was getting fat，and even my grandparents came to see how fat she was．They also said："It's just
(11) ．"But I didn't feel great about my mom being too fat to go trick-or-treating．
After going to just a few houses，my dad said we had to go to the
(12) ．I didn't really understand why，but I
(13) anyway．We arrived at the hospital and all the
(14) came up to compliment my pig costume．Some of them
(15) gave me some candy．
My dad was
(16) a hospital room with my mom．Soon he came out with a big
(17) ．I thought maybe the nurses had given him candy，too．"Jonathan，"he said，"you have a new baby brother．"I got to go in and see my brother．He was tiny and his eyes were closed，but I thought he must be
(18) since everyone around him couldn't help smiling．
"A baby on
(19) ，"one of the nurses laughed to me．"Do you think he is a trick or a treat？""
(20) ，he's a treat，"I replied．