She's a flower, she's perishable, she's half hidden, - and she's ultimately dead and in the ground-- whereas a star would seem to be something that she just can't be mapped onto if she is this half-hidden thing.

她是一朵花，是易腐烂的，有一半深埋在土里，最终凋谢回归土地-,如果她一般在土里,她就不可能是星星。

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This is the first one I ever got. I was eighteen. Just a flower.

这是我的第一个纹身。那时候我十八岁。就是一朵花。

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