I let him slip back into my life ten years later as easily as water flowing through a gate.

十年后，我也任由他回到我的生活中来，就好像水流过阀门一样简单。

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But the gate is small and the road is narrow that leads to true life. Only a few people find that road.

引到永生，那门是窄的，路是小的，找着的人也少。

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So you reluctantly leave it behind and head through the small gate into a new life.

你很不情愿的把包放下了，迈入了小门，开始了你新的生命。

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At the front desk of the Laventura, a disdainful blond woman provided her with a handful of devices for entry into her new life: apartment and mailbox keys, garage-gate remote, car tag, a code for accessing inner sanctums bearing keypads.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

"Golden Gate's toll-takers deal with people of all walks of life, new drivers and older motorists, wealthy and broke, friendly and cranky, and rushed and leisurely, " said the local news website Marin Independent Journal in an editorial.

BBC: Golden Gate: Electronic tolls for San Francisco bridge