It was right after the first rush of purple violets in the lawns and the sudden blaze of forsythia that spring that Grandpa had a stroke.

那年春天，就是在草坪里第一丛紫罗兰和突然盛开的鲜艳连翘出现后，爷爷得了中风。

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It was then that my parents brought grandpa to live with us.

就是那个时候，我的父母把爷爷带来和我们住在一起。

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I happened to know that my grandpa used to collect tea sets.

我碰巧知道我爷爷过去经常收集茶具。

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And I knew that every time the song played that my grandpa was looking down and thanking me for not the gift that I had given to my fans, but the gift that I had given to my father by having Clarence on that record.

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Tell me how I would be better off if instead of coming to America to make a new life, grandpa marinated in such blinding hatred that he encouraged me and my cousins to strap explosives on our backs and blow ourselves up in shopping malls?

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