So, imagine growing up in a place like that where the past was so-- was written not only in the death of people that you knew, because everybody you knew died basically.

所以想像在这种地方长大,那种历史真是,不光写在那些你认识的死者上,因为你认识的基本上都死了

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So, give me two more minutes, I'm going to end, and a few of you, faces, I've heard this before, people that I know; but, I guess one reason why I'm in history--well, because I read a book a long time ago.

所以,再给我两分钟,我就要结束了,你们有些人,面孔,这我见过,有的人我认识,但是,我觉得我之所以搞历史,因为我很久以前读过一本书

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