My mother and father weren’t together when I was a kid growing up in Chicago, and early on my mother fell victim to drug abuse.

我的童年在芝加哥度过的那段日子，我的父母没有生活在一起，我的母亲就开始滥用药品。

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Perhaps twenty years or so ago you'd have been subjected to more than just a torrent of abuse but these days, I don't think so, so don't kid yourself - you're insignificant!

或许20年后你仅仅属于辱骂对象中的一个，但是这些天，我并不这么想，不要对你自己那么好——你什么都不是！

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My mother and father weren't together when I was a kid growing up in Chicago, and early on my mother fell victim to drug abuse.

我还是个孩子、在芝加哥生活的时候，我爸爸和妈妈分开了。

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Many previously unknown people are also enjoying success with memoirs based on compelling personal stories, including Kevin Lewis, author of The Kid, a book about childhood abuse which has sold more than 150, 000 in the last few weeks.

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Even as the country's overprotective parents whip themselves up into a moral panic about kid-on-kid cruelty, the numbers don't point to any explosion of abuse.

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