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There at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, my l4-year-old son, John, and I noticed the coat.While the other coats drooped(低垂), this one looked as if it were 1 itself up.The coat was beautifully made, with a Fifth Avenue label and an 2 price of $28, which was popular just then with 3 , but could cost several hundred dollars new.John tried it on and the 4 was perfect.
John 5 the coat to school the next day and came home with a big smile.“Did the kids like your coat?” I asked.“They loved it,” he said, 6 folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat.Over the next few weeks, a 7 came over John.Agreement replaced contrariness(作对)and 8 discussion replaced fierce argument.He became more mannerly and 9 , eager to please.He would generously lend his younger brother his tapes and lecture him 10 his behavior.
When I mentioned this 11 to his teacher and wondered what caused the changes, she said laughing.“It 12 be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned 13 but because she liked his coat.At the library, we ran 14 a friend.“Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly, 15 John's new height, appreciating the cut of his coat and holding out his hand, one gentleman to another.
John and I both know we should never 16 a person's clothes for the real person within them. 17 , there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for 18 what is on the inside with what is on the outside.
For John, it is a time when it is as easy to try on different 19 to life as it is to try on a coat.The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape 20 all the doors are open.And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.
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