My maternal grandmother had told me the story of a relative dating from the nineteenth century: a young woman fresh from Ireland a Catholic who'd married a Protestant.

我的外祖母曾告诉我一个亲戚的故事，那是19世纪的事情了：一位刚刚从爱尔兰来的年轻女子，她是位天主教徒，刚刚嫁给了一个新教徒。

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She related a story about a young woman who gave up her dream of writing novels to study something more practical.

她讲述了一个年轻女人如何放弃了成为小说家的梦想，转而去学习一些更实用的东西。

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But her story is always about a caring young woman who overcomes her difficult family life with the support of a magical helper.

但是她的故事讲述的总是一个善良的年轻女孩在魔法的帮助下战胜了艰难的生活。

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Margaret tells the story of a young girl who sees a woman killed by a bus in New York City.

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At dinner with friends in a Greenwich Village restaurant, two playwrights, one tragic (Larry Pine), one comic (Wallace Shawn), offer alternate versions of the same story: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, shows up, unannounced, at a dinner party held by old friends and intrudes upon their lives.

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