We spent the winter and some of the spring in my room—never hers—missing tests, listening to music, looking out my window to comment on people who wouldn't have given us a second thought.

我们整个冬天和春天的一段时间都是在我宿舍度过的——我们从不去她的房间——逃考，听音乐，在我房间探出头去，对那些压根不会注意到我们的人品头论足。

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The question for the England management is simple: is it worth Flintoff risking missing this winter's series in South Africa and the Ashes that follow in order to rattle out a few West Indian batsman this summer?

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The empty, snow-covered streets serve as a reminder of what's missing in this town, and he lets people trundle through the winter chill as if they're serving a penance for merely existing.

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Shantry admits he is not missing the freezing conditions of the English winter but he is keeping in touch with his Worcestershire colleagues who are in back in pre-season training.

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