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Washington is home to lots of trees-it is the Evergreen State, after all-and lots of fireplaces and wood-burning stoves too. But what if you lived there and couldn’t chop wood or couldn’t ___1___ to pay someone to do it? ___2___, Shane McDaniel and his ___3___ sons, Harrison and Henry McDaniel, are happy to lend a ___4___. The three men chop a truckload of wood, and then donate it to those in ___5___. The idea ___6___ as a father-son bonding project. “I had to cut wood with my dad. He just loved doing it.” says Shane. He wanted to pass along that ___7___, so he and the twins spent the summer chopping wood. The result was a great wall of wood ___8___ around their house in Lake Stevens. To buy that much would ___9___ about $10,000. It was too much for the McDaniels to use themselves, and when the weather turned cold that November, Shane started thinking of others. He posted on Facebook: “If you are ___10___ firewood and cannot afford it, please ___11___ me! If you know someone who burns wood, and they’re looking at a cold house this holiday season, please help us help them. Please help me and my boys make sure no one goes cold in our ___12___.” The response was ___13___. One man offered to donate a wood-burning stove. Others raced over to Norm’s, the mini-mart (小超市) Shane ___14___, with more wood for the pile. Single mom Katelyn Ticer, 29, and her four-year-old daughter ___15___ on a wood-burning stove as their only ___16___ of heat, so it was a relief to ___17___ a truckload of firewood from the McDaniels before the holidays. “To get that much wood brought me to ___18___,” she said, “So much stress and ___19___ is off my shoulders. I couldn’t be more ___20___.”