Which means there is only one solution left: a long, slow, boring, lonely, soul-crushing process of digging out from under the piles of debt that got us into this mess.

这意味着解决的办法只剩一个：漫长、缓慢、没劲、孤独的灵魂拷问进程，使我们从把我们拖入这糟糕境地的、堆积如山的债务中解脱。

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