Then my husband left me. It gave me the jolt I needed.

后来我的丈夫离开了我。这给了我那个我需要的震动。

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My room needed a coat of paint to freshen it up.

我的房间需要一层粉刷来焕然一新。

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You needed my effort, I tried my best, because it asked for so much more.

你需要我去拼抢，我便尽最大的努力，因为这之间蕴含了太多东西。

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The biggest thing for me on that path is I needed to draw something out and I needed to get it out of my head.

在我看来，这条路上最重要的莫过于,是需要描绘出一些东西,再把它们忘却。

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But it was true, and I needed to hear it, needed my father to tell it to me, just as we all need our fathers to tell us the truth, as someday I'll tell it to my children, too.

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When my junior high civics class needed a chaperone, it was my dad who volunteered to drive the van to Washington, DC (although he did get us lost and he held my boyfriend over the toilet, but those are posts for another day).

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It wasn't until my daughter started sleeping through the night that my circuitry got the reboot it needed and the daymares wound down.

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