沃尔特的母亲住在大激流市，冬天快结束的时候，她因肺栓塞倒在她工作的那家女装店里。

Toward the end of that winter, in Grand Rapids, Walter's mother collapsed with a pulmonary embolism on the floor of the ladies' dress shop where she worked.

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库克是密西根州大激流市人，她直到1987年，才真正对内战产生兴趣；当时，她去宾夕法尼亚州的葛底斯堡的战争遗址参观。

A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Cook had virtually no interest in the Civil War until 1987, when she toured the battle site at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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有几个邻居和帕蒂的关系比波尔森两口子亲密些，他们告诉波尔森夫妇，比安卡小姐在靠近大激流市的一处小湖边有所不大的房子，她把房产全部留给了沃尔特，没有他两个兄弟的份。

Neighbors who were closer to Patty than the Paulsens reported that Miss Bianca had left her little mouse house, on a minor lake near Grand Rapids, exclusively to Walter and not to his two brothers.

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