"What is important for our friends and partners here in the Middle East to be assured of is that the United States will be very open and transparent about these contacts, and we will keep our friends informed of what is going on so that nobody gets surprised,".

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I think it's in part that, suffering from lupus, she was very much confined to her house in Georgia, and the letter writing, this kind of correspondence, was certainly a way for her to keep in contact with the world of readers and other writers and friends.

我想这多少与她，受病痛的折磨有关，受制于病情，她只能呆在,乔治亚州的家里，足不出户，所以写信，必然是她和读者、,其他作家和朋友联系的方式。

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How do you keep in touch with your friends?

你怎么和你的这些朋友保持联系呢？

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With Facebook, I tend to use it to keep in contact with old friends

我用Facebook和老朋友保持联系，

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