尽管现在不会出现真正与其他任何人完全隔离的情况，那时候这么做确实是把自己与你的所有关系都断绝了，我打一个电话必须在一个电话亭排队，这真的不容易。

To do that then was really to be severed from your ties. To make a phone call I had to wait in line at a phone place and it was not easy.

youdao

打一个“我在挂念你”的电话。

Make an "I was thinking of you" phone call.

youdao

我很想他，最开始我会经常给她打电话，一打就是一两个小时，电话里我就会说我想你，我在北京的生活怎能没有你？

I miss her so much, and I would always call her in, each time, at the beginning I mean. One hour, two hour, I just say, I miss you, how can I live in Beijing without you?

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and then they're like, "Yeah, we'll call you, we'll call you." That's fine. And they never called me

然后他们都说类似的话：“好的，我们会打电话给你的。”说得好听，但他们从来没给我打过电话。

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