一句话如何理解

一句话如何理解
How old was I can’t remember.Maybe I was only 10.It was the first 16 without my father because he was away for something.He left me to fill that sad place in my mother’s heart.It was the Christmas when I 17 being a child and tried to play Father Christmas myself very much.I really wanted to make it happy and bright again.It was the Christmas of the 18 .
Mom first saw the coat at Tobias,a nice 19 shop in our town’s little shopping mall.It was dark green.And it was a 20 ,heavy,
wool dress coat.Mom pulled it out from the rack(架) and held it up.“Long enough,” she said in a low voice and 21 .
“I need a new coat,” Mom smiled before the mirror.She looked good on any clothes,22 this coat suited her much better.She looked at the 23 ,then hung the coat back on the rack,standing there once more to 24 the smooth brush of wool.
Eighty-seven dollars.But I decided to buy it for her.As we moved on 25 the mall,I found some excuse to return and asked one of the Tobias ladies to 26 the coat.I helped clean every yard（庭院）
It was the Christmas of the 18 18题答案是coat ,圣诞的外套