But as they try to pick up the lives that they left behind, they discover it's not going to be as easy as all that.

然而，当他们试着过回原来的生活时，他们却发现并没那么容易。

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No one can, as I have, daily contemplate the detritus left behind by lost love without becoming a little cynical about the ways people choose those to whom they link their lives.

没有人能在每天沉思失去所爱的点点滴滴时，不以敛愤世嫉俗的心情去看待旁人所选择的生活关键点。

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That's why Minnesota has started preparing for what the military calls reintegration helping soldiers return to the lives they left behind.

NPR: Minnesota Guard Families Prepare for Homecoming

In the US, women immigrants from the Dominican Republic are living dramatically different lives to the ones they left behind, according to researchers.

BBC: Dominican women in US challenge 'machismo' culture