"At first, I felt like I was living in hell," says Yang Xudong, a laconic 22-year-old in his second month of treatment.

“起初，我觉得像是监狱生活，”22岁的杨旭东(音译)说，他正处于治疗期的第二个月。

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Worried about his family while thousands of miles away in a war zone was just an added bit of misery considering he was already living in the midst of hell.

他十分想家，而且每当想起自己处在离家几千里外的如同地狱般的战区时，心理就会有丝丝痛苦。我觉得他把这件事情告诉佩德森是对的。马克思知道不能够压抑这种情感。

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Dying of thyroid cancer that had spread to her breast and liver, Sheri spent the last year or so of her life making Idahoans aware of how much fallout the state had received and making Idaho politicians push for compensation for those of their citizens whose lives had been lost, shortened, or made a living hell by federal policy.

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Now living in Rugby, in the English Midlands, he describes Bethany as a "place of hell", but not as bad as the home of the dysfunctional adoptive parents in County Wicklow he was sent to when he was nearly four.

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