I knew she had been absent all week, so I called her this morning to see if she was sick.

我知道她一星期没来上课，所以今天早上我打电话问她是不是病了。

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When we were leaving, I even felt a little excited because I thought about all the places I was going to see—the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures.

当我们离开的时候，我甚至感到有点兴奋，因为我在想所有要去地方——那些我只从书和图片中了解到的陌生而神奇的地方。

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Because I was terribly shy and if I had all these imaginary characters around me, you see, I could talk to them and they answered back, just what I wanted them to say.

我太腼腆了，很少和人交往。我经常幻想出一些可以跟我说话的人物，这些幻想中的人物在我身边，我跟他们谈心，他们照我希望的那样来回答我。

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"I had to step back and let her see what I knew all along" about the past significant others in her life, Eddie says.

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And I was only able to catch, you know, the snippets that were on the evening news, which unfortunately, from what I've heard, it was a terrific speech but so far I have not had a chance to see it all.

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Long after the sun had set and all the lights were on in my house, I could see that the car was still there.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield