The way of life is "Wasteland", but "my" soul is not inhospitable. It always trudges gamely in hardship.

生命之路是一片“荒原”，但“我”的灵魂却不荒凉，在困苦中仍然作着艰难不屈地跋涉。

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"But that does not give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process, " a determined Hatfill said.

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