John __25__

　　the coat to school the next day and came home wearing a big smile "Did the kids like your coat?" I asked. "They loved it," he said, __26__ folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a __27__ came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness(作对)and reasoned discussion replaced fierce __28__. He became more mannerly and __29__, eager to please. He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him __30__his behavior.

　　When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and __31__ what caused the changes, she said laughing. "It __32__ be his coat!" Another teacher told him she was giving him a good__33__ not only because he

　　had earned __34__but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ran into a friend “Could this be John?" he asked surprisingly, __35__John's new height, assessing the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.

　　John and I both know we should never __36__a person's clothes for the real person within them. __37__ there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for __38__what is on the inside to what is on the outside.

　　For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to __39__ as it is to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast landscape__40__ all the doors are open. And he could picture himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.

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