On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have ____41____ the course earlier than she did. Her ____42____ came because she was carrying a ____43____ across the finish line.

As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her ____44____ when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She ____45____ to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with ____46____. She couldn’t. Bailey then ____47____ to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get ____48____ attention.

Once there, Lenoue was ____49____ and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme _____50_____ to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey’s help.

As for Bailey, she is more _____51_____ about why her act is considered a big _____52_____. “She was just crying. I couldn’t _____53_____ her,” Bailey told the reporter. “I feel like I was just doing the right thing.”

Although the two young women were strangers before the _____54_____, they’ve since become friends. Neither won the race, but the _____55_____ of human kindness won the day.