I know that was like pulling teeth for some of you to read, but if it was helpful to at least one person then I am satisfied.

我知道，对你们某些人来说，读它就像拔牙那么困难，但是即使它至少只对一个人有帮助，我就满足了。

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It was actually worse than pulling teeth because most of the time we had to fabricate the teeth and then pull them.

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