He sat very close to me, and opened the book as if he was opening a treasure that nobody had ever seen.

他坐得离我很近，并打开了那本书，好像打开了一个没人见过的宝藏。

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He was glad to have me there, and reached out his hand to pull me close.

只有我在，他很高兴，就伸出他的手把我抱得紧紧的。

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It gave me a slightly eerie feeling when I first saw him close to, and ever after that he was "Count Dracula."

第一次见到它的时候，突然有一种奇异的感觉，跟德古拉伯爵相似，于是从那以后，它就成为德古拉伯爵。

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"He was telling me I need to finish second, and he was also telling me 'Don't step on the line,' and he was also telling me, 'Just try to stay close.' They shot the gun and I saw him for about maybe two or three seconds.

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Then I want to note the transition that happens at the very bottom of this page after he says, "I was chastened whenever I remembered that my mother had come close to killing me."

我想强调的是,这页最下面的转折，在他说完“一想起母亲过来揍我,我就会很听话“之後“

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But I think he, you know, what he repeated to me was that he felt that his mission wasn't even close to being done.

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"I hate everything that has happened, and now I must admit I feel even worse, knowing what allegedly was happening so close to me, and that I was unaware, " he wrote.

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His shirts were always crisply ironed, and I used to watch him across the hedge, then close my eyes and imagine that he was walking toward me, coming to claim me as his.

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