And there,everything was just as it was when he left it.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

I think that just it's a story that about his family before he left and sort of how he had a very happy, joyful life with his family.

我认为这个故事记录了,他离开日本前得家庭,以及他和家人的，快乐生活。

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He placed two more sticks on it, just two more left.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

"Now he is just resting. We should just accept that and enjoy what he left for us to enjoy."

VOA: standard.2009.07.01