I have managed to convince myself that if it weren't for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village buried in the country.

我设法说服自己，如果不是为了我的工作，我会立即前往空旷的地方，在坐落于乡间的寂静村庄里回归自然。

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Earlier this year when I went back to my home village, my parents told me that a girl in the village had gone mad.

早些时候我回到我家乡的小村庄，我的父母告诉我村里的一给小姑娘疯了。

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Have you given my daughter a little package to remember you by now that the war is over and you know America will kick your ass back to your village full of shit in Sicily?

你有没有使我的女儿明白，现在战争结束了，美国会把你踢回你在西西里岛上那个充满粪便的村庄？

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So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.

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