"Well,actually I was scheduled to work this morning," . "When I got up at 5:30, I saw on the news that they needed a lot of help, and I called into my job and said I needed to take a short day vacation, because I needed my son to be a part of what was going on."

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And he was getting burnt out so he decided to take a vacation.

他觉得有点精疲力尽了,因此决定去度假。

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I decided I'm just going to go out there and take a vacation.

我决定去那里度假。

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