我以前觉得我这辈子算是倒霉到家了，很担心自己长大了也会像哥哥一样。

I used to feel doomed. I used to worry that I would grow up to be like my brother.

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在疾病爆发以前，那时所有的一切——或者几乎所有的一切——还是像往常一样的，而且希望一切结束也不那么让人心痛，也许是永远。

Where everything is — almost — as it used to be, before the sickness broke out, and where it doesn't hurt to hope that everything is over, maybe forever.

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但是放弃在广东省的产品再也不是像以前一样需要争论的问题了，并且在美国生产也不再是那么昂贵了。

But stamping out products in Guangdong Province is no longer the bargain it once was, and US manufacturing is no longer as expensive.

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