Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses.

我曾经以为爱情意味着鲜花、礼物和甜蜜的亲吻。

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My father, so self-effacing in normal life, would wake up, call our names, say how much he loved us and blow kisses, before succumbing once more to the exhaustion that was pulling him away from us.

父亲平生低调，但那时异常清醒，唤着我们的名字，说他有多么爱我们，拼命地亲吻我们，直到一次又一次耗尽精力而昏迷过去。

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But they admit more research is needed to test this theory and figure out, once and for all, why we lean in certain directions for certain kisses.

但是他们承认必须通过更多的研究来验证这个理论，并且一劳永逸的证明，为什么我们亲吻的时候要偏向特定的某一方向。

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