出于两个原因，我决定撰写本文。

I decided to write this article for two reasons.

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于是我决定坐下来撰写这样一本书，讲述我的故事。

Finally I sat down to write the book, to tell my story.

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我的父亲最近撰写了一篇题为“24岁尚茫然，64岁我方知”的文章，受此启发，彭妮决定写下自己的诸般体会。

Inspired by a recent article my father wrote entitled "What I Know at 64 that I Didn't Know at 24", Penny decided to write a list of her own.

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