I've met a young woman with white hair like mine and she turns out to come from the village my mother comes from.

我曾经遇到过一个与我有一样白发的年轻女子，结果她和我母亲出自同一个村子。

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And then I wondered: if my mother had gone to college, had a career, would her handwriting have changed, a different emphasis in her life molding her penmanship into something more like mine?

所以我开始怀疑，如果母亲上过大学，参加过工作，那么她的手写体会变的像我的一样？

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I don't really know what Tom's mother is like, she is only a bowing acquaintance of mine.

我实际上并不知道汤姆的母亲是个怎样的人，我跟她只有点头之交。

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