作为一个孩子，我必须承认，故事中字里行间严酷而不言而喻的事实，使母亲早些年不开心的经历，下意识的感觉不那么难以忍受了。

As a child I must have recognised, at any rate subconsciously, the harsh unspoken truths lurking between the lines of a story that made my mother's early unhappiness somehow easier to bear.

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她和他男朋友过得不开心，她解释说，但她不打算和他分手，因为不想让自己的孩子像她一样没有父亲。

She was unhappy with her boyfriend, she explains, but did not want to split up with him, because she did not want their child to grow up fatherless, as she had.

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如果你担心你的孩子不开心或忧郁，你可以找学校或你的家庭医生谈话。

If you are worried that your child is unhappy or depressed, you could speak to the school or to your GP.

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