On the fourth week I was allowed to solo up the corridor. As I passed his room, there was my faithful friend in the doorway.

到了第四个星期，我可以自己在长廊上走了，每当我经过他的房间，我这位忠实的朋友都会站在门口。

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I thought he would betray some emotion as he passed around photos of his handsome, scholarly looking boy. There was nothing.

我以为，在翻阅他那英俊，儒雅的儿子的照片时，他会宣泄出一些情绪，但什么都没有发生。

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There were all the notes my girlfriends and I passed throughout junior high, along with all the goofy poems my first boyfriend paid his friends to write and passed along to me as his originals.

在这些小玩意当中，有我和初三的女伴们互传的小纸片，还有我的第一任男朋友的蹩脚情诗——还不是他自己写的，是他掏腰包请他的朋友代写的，然后大言不惭地跟我说是他自己写的。

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But then there were fewer dogs to bark at me as I passed under the trees, and, where the dog was big, so was the dog door, and I could crawl in and avail myself of the canned and packaged foods in kitchen pantries.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield