Eventually, I made my excuses and abandoned him as well.

最终我找了个借口离开了。

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I ask him where he got it and he points to the soft contours of an abandoned sand castle.

我问他这是哪儿来的，他指了指一个被废弃了的用柔沙堆成的城堡。

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All I could think about in that moment was that I had abandoned him.

而我当时的感觉便是我遗弃了他。

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In the abandoned farm, where he sleeps on the concrete floor with four others, I put all these difficulties to him.

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