Today, I received two letters, one from my mom, other from my dad, about how much they missed me with me not being around them.

今天我收到两封信，我爹一封我娘一封，写的都是我不在他们身边他们有多么想念我。

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At first I thought I was perhaps being too severe, but when I asked several people from other nations, I found that everyone agreed with me.

开始时我以为自己可能是太苛刻了，但当我问了几个来自其他国家的人，他们竟都与我有相同之感。

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For me, it changes my life from being purely self-centered to being something with meaning for others, too.

对我来说，做志愿者让我的生活从完全的以自我为中心变成对他人有意义。

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Texting did not prevent me from being intensely engaged with the scholarly material that was presented.

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The only references to Ron Davies during the briefing came from the journalists and the only assertion being put to me that I agreed with was that there were some elements of the past week that I could not fully explain, as was the case then.

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My reasons for this ranged from petty and annoying personality clashes with someone to their being extraordinarily high maintenance clients, making me terribly unmotivated to do work with or for them.

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