My mother was an amazing woman. She raised four of us kids virtually singlehandedly.

我母亲是个了不起的女人。她几乎是独自抚养大了我们4个孩子。

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On the way the kids straggled behind us.

在路上，那几个孩子落在了我们后面。

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The kids trailed around after us while we shopped for clothes.

我们在商店买衣服时，孩子们无精打采地跟在后面。

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"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

"The fact of the matter is it helps our athletes, it inspires our kids, it really embraces all that the Olympics has to offer all of us as a country, as a community and as a world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

And really fell in love with the jumping part of it," "There was a bunch of us kids at the time, a bunch of my friends and that's just kind of the route that we went down."

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

"2, 000 hospital beds a night are in terms of alcohol related causes, one in 11 kids tell us they are impacted by parental drinking, one in seven kids are in care because of parental drinking, " she said.

BBC: Person drinking

Kids like us, as you might expect, grew up to resent summer and all it entails, because it's basically outdoor recess.

NPR: Summer Reads for Former Recess Rebels

So far, so good--though we'd convert the fitness room into a bar and never even contemplate taking the kids with us.

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