The phone rang when she got her coat, so she answered it immediately.

她拿外套的时候，电话铃响了，她立刻接了起来。

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When we got a call saying she was short-listed, we thought it was a joke.

当我们接到电话说她入围时，还以为是在开玩笑。

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"When I got the job at the mill I thought this is it, this'll be the job for my life," she says.

“当我得到造纸厂的工作时，我在想，就是它了，这就是我一生的工作，”她说。

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She revealed that on an earlier occasion Mr Coats had given Ms Spence cash and when she got back to her office in Glasgow, she noticed that it was short.

BBC: Lynda Spence

She coughed, and they laughed, but soon enough she got the hang of it, except that when she exhaled she did a funny thing: she blew out again and again, like a woman practicing for childbirth.

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When Josefowicz got the call, she said it was like an out-of-body experience.

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