history: When Christmastime comes along I often get sentimental. I miss spending Christmas with my parents who are no longer here. I get sentimental around Christmas. Christmases with my parents were the best but now they're gone.
current: Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, how long have they been gone.
next: I lost my dad a couple of years ago and my mother followed a year later. It is sometimes hard to get through Christmas without nostalgia.