完型填空 Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I 1 across some old love lett

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Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I 1 across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other．These letters were all piled up in a basket, dirty and 2 with dust．Deciding to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home．They 3．

As I carefully opened each letter, 4 of them fragile with age, I discovered a new page 5 unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives．

My father used to 6 in the army．So his letters were full of frontline 7 of the things about the war．Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss．I was 8 to these letters like a magnet(磁铁)．

Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very 9 and was hospitalized．This time, he was fighting a 10 kind of war．As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the 11．He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had 12 to him when he had been so far from home．

It so happened that the next day would be February 14．From the 13 letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father’s bedside．

At his bedside, I joked with him, saying 14, "Today is Valentine's Day, don’t you want to send Mother a present?" He became more 15 when I handed him the old 16．He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he 17 it, his eyes were filled with tears．

My father, in a 18 tight with emotion(情感)read the loving message he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years 19．And this time, he could read it to her in 20．

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