"I wanted to go to a place where bread mattered to people."

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But that's not the kind of thing about existence that mattered to me.

但是这样的存在对我来说并不重要。

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In terms of what mattered to me, what I wanted was not just that I exist, but that I be alive,indeed be a person, indeed be a person with pretty much the same personality.

说到对我来说重要的事情，我不仅仅希望存在，而是希望存活，作为人活着，带着我原有的人格活着。

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It mattered that much to them.

这对他们来说很重要。

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