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The Gift of Forgiveness – Christmas Story
The Christmas of 1949 we didn’t have a tree. My dad had as much pride as anybody, I 1.________, so he wouldn’t just say that we couldn’t 2. _________ one.
When I 3. ___________ it, my mother said that we weren’t going to have one this year, that we couldn’t afford one, and even if we could – it was stupid to clutter up your hou with a dead tree.
（5）I wanted a tree 4. ___________ though, and I thought – in my naive way – that if we had one, everybody would feel better.
About three days before Christmas, I was out collecting for my paper route. It was fairly late – long after dark –it was snowing and very cold.
I went to the apartment building to try to 5. _____________ a customer who hadn’t paid me for nearly （10）two months –she owed me ven dollars.
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Much to my 6. ___________, she was home. She invited me in and not only did she pay me, but also s
he gave me a dollar tip! It was a windfall (an amount of money that you get unexpectedly) for me – I now had eight whole dollars.
What happened next was totally 7. ___________. On the way home, I walked past a Christmas tree （15）lot and the idea 8. ___________me.
The 9. ___________ wasn’t very good b ecau it was so clo to the holiday, but there was this one real nice tree. It had been a very expensive tree and no one had bought it; now it was so clo to Christmas that the man was afraid no one would.
He wanted ten dollars for it, but when I – in my gullible ( easily tricked becau they are too trusting) （20）innocence – told him I only had eight, he said he might ll it for that.
村夜白居易I really didn’t want to spend the whole eight dollars on the tree, but it was so pretty that I finally agreed.
I 10. ___________ it all the way home – about a mile, I think – and I tried hard not to damage it or break off any limbs.
（25）The snow helped to cushion (reducing the force) it, and it was still in pretty good 11. _______
____when I got home. You can’t imagine how proud and excited I was. I propped (resting it somewhere) it up against the railing (a metal fence) on our front porch and went in.
My heart was 12. ___________as I announced that I had a surpri.
（30）I got Mom and Dad to come to the front door and then I switched on the porch light.
“Where did you get that tree?” my mother exclaimed.
But it wasn’t the kind of exclamation that 13. ___________ pleasure.
“I bought it up on Main Street. Isn’t it just the most perfect tree you ever saw?” I said, trying to main tain (to make something continue) my enthusiasm.
（35）“Where did you get the money?” Her tone was accusing and it began to 14. ___________ on me that this wasn’t going to 15. ___________out as I had planned.
“From my paper route.” I explained about the customer who had paid me.
“And you spent the whole eight dollars on this tree?” she exclaimed.
麻腮风疫苗不良反应She went into a tirade ( a long angry speech criticizing someone or something ) about how stupid it （40）was to spend my money on a dumb tree that would be thrown out and burned in a few days.
She told me how irresponsible I was and how I was just like my dad with all tho foolish, romantic, noble notions (an idea, belief, or opinion) about fairy tales and happy endings and that it was about time I grew up and learned some 16.
___________ about the realities of life and how to take care of money and spend it on things that were needed and not on silly things.
（45）She said that I was going to end up in the poorhou becau I believe in stupid things like Christmas trees, things that didn’t amount to anything.
I just stood there. My mother had never talked to me like that before and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
I felt awful and I began to cry. Finally, she 17. ___________ out and snapped (to break with a sudden （50）sharp noi) off the porch light.
“Leave it there,” she said. “Leave that tree there till it rots, so every time we e it, we’ll all be 18. __
_ of how stupid the men in this family are.”
Then she stormed up the stairs to her bedroom and we didn’t e her until the next day.
Dad and I brought the tree in and we made a stand for it.
（55）He got out the box of decorations and we decorated it as best as we could; but men aren’t too good at things like that, and besides, it wasn’t the same without mom.
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There were a few prents under it by Christmas day –although I can’t remember a single one of them – but Mom wouldn’t have anything to do with it.
It was the worst Christmas I ever had.
（60）Fast forward to today, Judi and I married in August of 1963, and dad died on October 10 of that year. Over the next eight years, we lived in many places. Mom sort of 19. ___________ up the year – either living with my sister Jary or with us. In 1971 we were living in Wichita, Kansas – Lincoln was about ven, Brendan was three and Kristen was a baby. Mom was staying with us during the holidays. On Christmas Eve I stayed up very late. I was （65）totally alone with my thoughts, alternating (keep using one then the other) between joy and melancholy, and I got to thinking about
my paper route, that tree, what my mother had said to me and how Dad had tried to make things better.
I heard a noi in the kitchen and 20. ___________ that it was mom. She couldn’t sleep either and had gotten up to make herlf a cup of hot tea – which was her remedy (a way of dealing with a problem （70）or making a bad situation better) for just about everything. As she waited for the water to boil, she walked into the living room and discovered me there. She saw my open Bible and asked me what I was reading. When I told her, she asked if I would read it to her and I did.
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When the kettle began to whistle, she went and made her tea. She came back, and we started to visit. I told her how happy I was that she was with us for Christmas and how I wished that Dad could have lived （75）to e his grandchildren and to enjoy this time becau he always loved Christmas so. It got very 21. ___________ for a moment and then she said, “Do you remember that time on Twelve Mile Road when you bought that tree with you r paper route money?”
“Yes,” I said, “I’ve just been thinking about it you know.”
She 22. ___________ for a long moment, as though she were on the verge (to be at the point where （80）something is about to happen) of something that was 23. ___________ up so deeply inside h
er soul that it might take surgery to get it out. Finally, great tears started down her face and she cried, “Oh, son, plea forgive me.”
“That time and that Christmas have been a 24. ___________ on my heart for twenty-five years. I wish your dad were here so I could tell him how sorry I am for what I said. Your dad was a good man and （85）it hurts me to know that he went to his grave without ever hearing me say that I was sorry for that night. Nothing will ever make what I said right, but you need to know that your dad never did have any money n (which was all too true).
We were fighting all the time –though not in front of you –we were two months behind in our hou payments, we had no money for groceries, your dad was talking about going back to Arkansas and that （90）tree was the last 25. ___________. I took it all out on you. It doesn’t make what I did right, but I hoped that someday, when you were older, you would understand. I’ve wanted to say something for ever so long and I’m so glad it’s finally out.”
Well, we both cried a little and held each other and I forgave her –it wasn’t hard, you know.
Then we talked for a long time, and I did understand; I saw what I had never en and the bitterness （95）and sadness that had gathered up in me for all tho years gradually 26. ___________away.
It was marvelously simple.
The great gifts of this ason – or any ason –can’t be put under the tree; you can’t wear them or eat them or drive them or play with them. We spend so much time on the lesr gifts – toys, sweaters, jewelry, the mint, ani and dill of Christmas –and so little on the great gifts –兰州府
Moral：
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Forgiveness keys
1.suppo
2.afford
4.badly
5.catch
6.surpri
7.unplanned
8.hit
9.lection 10.dragged 11.shape 12.bursting 13.indicates 14.dawn 15.turn 16.n
24.burden 25.straw 26.washed
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