I don't know how, dear God, except to ask you to bless her as richly as she deserves and to help me live up to the example she has set.

上帝啊，除了请求您保佑她尽可能得到她应得到的并帮我向她树立的榜样看齐外，我不知道再求您做什么啦。

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She could not imagine how to live except in her own home, with her own things, and the Georgian world arranged to provide her and her family what their station demanded.

NPR: E.L. Doctorow on Sherman and 'The March'