I closed my eyes and made a wish: to be as open-minded as my family and my new friend.

我闭上眼睛，许了一个愿：我要像我的家人和新朋友一样豁达。

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Leaving my family behind in Japan, I hunkered down and worked for my friend.

远离在日本的家人，我一无所有，开始为我的朋友工作。

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For one thing, Seth is my only friend on MySpace; the rest of my family and all of my friends are on Facebook.

举个例子，Seth是我在MySpace上唯一的好友；我家庭其余成员和我所有朋友都使用Facebook。

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And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

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