His social media post got a lot of people interested in a possible event about boring things and he started getting questions about where to buy tickets for it.

他的帖子引发了许多人对这个可能会存在的关于无聊事情的活动的兴趣，于是人们开始问他在哪里能买到这种活动的票。

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He kept trying to make everything all right for her started to buy her things, take her out to dinner once a week. But nothing seemed to satisfy her.

他努力在每件事情上迁就她，给她买她喜欢的东西，每周都带她外出用一次餐，但好象什么都不能令她满足。

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