I'm writing goodbye letters to all my friends at school.

我正在给学校的所有朋友写告别信。

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My dear friends, I'm writing to invite you to my new house in the country.

我亲爱的朋友们，我写信是想邀请你们到我在乡下的新房子去。

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I heard that the seniors in the nursing home couldn't see their families and friends very often, so my friends and I decided to cheer up the elderly by writing them letters, We want them to know that nobody is being forgotten.

我听说养老院的老人不能经常见到他们的家人和朋友，所以我的朋友和我决定给老人写信让他们高兴起来，我们想让他们知道没有人被遗忘。

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Would being a father mean I would have to abandon my writing, or could I, like many of my white friends and teachers who were writers, simply depend on my wife to support me and our child while I continued to write novels and poetry?

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And finally, since the world is a strange and wonderful place sometimes, while writing this piece an email came from some friends of mine with their Xmas gift: a donation in my name to Doctors Without Borders.

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