Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations: I don't talk about that anymore.

几年前的某一天，我说过一句话，这句话最终成为了我对任何挑衅的回应：我不再谈论那件事了。

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If I manage to outgrow this current madness, the book that I write will open with the last line of Dante's Inferno: "And then we came out to see once more the stars."

如果我能够超越疯狂，我写的这本书将会以但丁《神曲》的地狱篇中最后一行作为开篇：“彼时，我们一同走出来，再看一次繁星吧。”

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Now it was not just any old cake. It came in the round cake pans, and Ibaked it, but then I attempted to cut out a heart and used pink icing anddecorated it.

现在不仅仅是老式蛋糕，是那种放在圆盘里的蛋糕，我烤的，不过后来我试图切成心形，用粉红色糖衣装饰一下。

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Then she got up from the floor and came to find out what I was doing.

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I knew the storyline before I went, but when the lights went down, and then the story came out.

我去看之前就知道故事情节了，但当灯光暗下来，演出开始，

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Now it was not just any old cake. It came in the round cake pans, and I baked it, but then I attempted to cut out a heart and used pink icing and decorated it.

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The fact is, I put in less work then you did and yet I still came out on top.

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And then I came here and found out, oh, my gosh, you need insurance -- you need this, you need that -- which I could never afford on the salary I make.

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The jeans I had before them cost the same, and I wore them until they got holes in them, and then I got those patched up, and then the patches got holes in them and the hem came out and I decided to move on.

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