We both love thinking of the children reading the story today, coming to it for the first time and realizing that once, for a short time and in a small place, a group of prejudice-free people created a touching story of love and kindness towards others.

我们都很乐意想到现在读这个故事的孩子们，当他们第一次读到时，意识到曾经在很短的时间里，在一个很小的地方，有一群没有偏见的人创造了一个关于对别人的爱和善意的动人的故事。

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In the first place you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.

为了奠定友谊的基础，首先你必须钟情于她。

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Sometime they even marry for the house, the value of true love is being distorted, people no more put the love in the first place, they consider the house the most important thing.

有时候他们甚至为房子而结婚，真爱的价值被扭曲，人们不再把爱放在第一位上，他们把房子看成最重要的东西。

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So why are our biggest movie stars, like Aniston and Damon, forgoing the kinds of blockbuster movies that made people love them in the first place?

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Comedian Shappi Khorsandi, part of a judging panel that includes last year's winner Philip Ardagh and awards founder Michael Rosen, said the quality of books "reminded me how I came to love reading in the first place".

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As horrible as betrayal is, forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place, and you are one of them.

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