At first, whatever I said, she just said no.

开始时，无论我说什么，她总是说不。

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"No one would tell me the name of the company they had used to check me out... and this had just blossomed all over the place," she said.

“没有人能告诉我那个让我“挂”掉的公司名称……而这种情况经常出现，”她说。

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“Father had no land, and middle school was just a dream for me, ” she said.

“父亲没有钱供养我们上学，读中学对我来说只能是个梦，”她说道。

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"And when other people wanted to cave in, when people wanted to say, including a very powerful man in our party said, 'let's just do children's health care and let's come back at it another day,' she said no,this country needs health care reform, we are going to take on the insurance industry, we are going to get it done."

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"The worst thing we can do is just say no, " she said.

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She said no, she was just tired of giving in.

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Sharleen McLennon, who also had been homeless and found support with Quarriers, said she had "no idea just how difficult it would be" to live alone and she could not cope with her own house as she did not have the skills required.

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