幸运的是，我没有儿子，但是这对我来说是个燃眉之急的问题：我该拿我的孩子怎么办？

Fortunately, I haven't got a son, but it would be a burning question to me: what am I to do with the children that I have?

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有一样东西他没有，就是儿子。我觉得他有个外孙感觉也不错。

The one thing he didn't have was a son. I think he's felt that a grandson is the next best thing.

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在第二个家庭中，另一个已故妇女的儿子说：“如果我没有坚持让我母亲去佛罗里达，她今天应该还活着。”

At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn't insisted on my mother's going to Florida, she would be alive today."

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And not a single young person in the room except my son, who was then a teenager who would tag along and see his father testify.

却没有一个年轻人在场,除了我儿子，是当时唯一的青少年,除了他没人跟着父亲参加听证会。

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Reopen no old wounds. Be as if you had never returned and looked in to me to see my laboring humilities, my few scrubbed pennies, hungry to grab, quick to deprive, sullen, unloved, mean-minded son of my flesh. Son! Son!"

不要再来碰我的伤疤，像你从前没有回来看过我似的,来看我的辛苦和谦卑，看我被掏得一干二净的钱袋，饿了抢，急了打，我亲生的没有感情，冷酷自私的儿子！“

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