So his was a progression out of a very poor, Southern childhood, from a black family led by a single mother, to the circles in which Gertrude Stein moved in Paris.

从他在南方的贫穷的童年,黑人家庭的来历，单亲妈妈的抚养，到他一步步脱离这样背景,迈向葛楚德，史坦迁往巴黎后的圈子。

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