安道森出身贫寒.她的父亲,一个铁路公司的劳工,在她12岁那一年去世;她没有进入大学进修,因为她的家庭得靠她的演唱和做女工所得的收入来维持.(她最后获得了一个高校文凭.)

Anderson did grow up poor. Her father, a railroad laborer, died when she was 12; she didn’t attend high school because her family depended on money she earned from singing and domestic work.

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“但是，”孩子问道，“您是知道的，在天堂，我除了歌唱和微笑，不必做任何事，那才是我所需要的快乐啊。”

"But," said the child, "tell me here in Heaven I don 't do anything else but sing and smile. That' s what I need to be happy!"

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