I felt too constrained working with the past, like what I wrote needed to be fact as opposed to fiction, but writing about the future gave me more freedom to imagine, to invent.

和过去打交道让我感觉太拘束了，就像我写的东西必须是事实，不能虚构，但写与未来有关的东西给了我更多的自由去想象，去创作。

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And yet I never stopped loving him and using his love like a battery booster whenever I needed to rev up my courage or soothe my sagging spirit.

但是，我对他的爱从未停止过。而他的爱更是我的充电器，在我需要勇气或是意志消沉的时候给我鼓励和安慰。

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When I got to law school, that regret gave me the fuel I needed to push myself to do more activities, like the law journal and Barristers' Union.

当我到了法学院后，这个后悔给我去参与更多活动的动力，比如法律日报和律师联盟。

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