You and Dad get paid to write about plants, and you hate dirt.

你和爸爸要靠写关于植物的文章获取酬劳，但是你却非常讨厌尘土。

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They finally HAMP- modified me last September but only because I paid a consultant a large amount of cash to get down in the dirt and fight for me.

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He says the New York-based firm paid itself handsome dividends for piling on debt and mismanaging the vacuum-cleaner maker into the dirt.

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