Furthermore, after the story was published I stopped thinking about the mother and her children who had burned to death in a car, as if by writing about them I had made them disappear.

而且在故事发表之后，我甚至没有再去回忆在车里被烧死的母亲和她的孩子，似乎一旦这个故事被写了出来，这件事情就从此消失了。

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In fact, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia: lovely, strong and perfect.

事实上，我母亲希望她的孩子视自己为栀子花：可爱、强壮、完美。

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Under the old system in America, a mother was supposed to stay home and take care of her children.

在美国旧的社会体制下，母亲应该待在家里照顾孩子。

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The mother of five invited the children and grandchildren of House members, including her own eight grandchildren,to join her.

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We are so proud!" Justice Sotomayor was born and raised in this neighborhood, and her immigrant mother graduated from Hostos with a nursing degree in 1973, thus paving the way for her children's own success.

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Suspecting Reyes was in the country illegally, the sheriff's deputies handcuffed the mother and placed her children in a squad car and drove them to the sheriff's station.

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Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman -- whose office responded to the shooting at the Hermans' home -- said he believes the mother and her two children were in a life-and-death situation and she had no choice but to exercise her constitutional right to self-defense.

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Brecht, whose classic works include "The Threepenny Opera, " co-written with Kurt Weil, and "Mother Courage and Her Children, " wrote the play while in exile himself in America.

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