It goes without saying that when summer reared its cheerful face into my cruel childhood, I was that unfortunate-looking child wading in the swimming pool with an oversized T-shirt on.

到了夏天，大家都在嬉水，我只能穿着宽大的T恤在泳池里来回迈步，我又胖又丑，再美好的夏日于我而言不过是残酷童年的一部分。

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A friend picked by a T-shirt, a few yards from childhood has been tried, after more than ten times out of dressing rooms.

朋友挑中了一款衬衫，从小几码就一直试穿，前后出入试衣间十几次。

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It was an unusual and lonely childhood in this country of steadfastly nuclear families, but Hamasaki says she wasn 't aware of what she was missing.

在这个小家庭结构牢固的国家里，那是一个不寻常的寂寞童年，但滨崎步却说她并不觉得自己失落了什么。

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It's a memory from childhood or it's eating something that you know you weren't supposed to, but you did it anyway and really enjoyed it.

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You know--somebody else who remembers all Linda's childhood, some imitate came along, we don't say "different person" we say "same person lost lot of weight".

那些记得琳达童年模样的人,她的亲友会这么说，我们不会说，是不同的人了“,而会说，是减肥后的同一个人。

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That's his motto. He has great advice: 'don't set the kitchen on fire.'" Author Mohammed Naseehu Ali shared childhood memories of his mother's kitchen in Ghana.

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But he didn't have a happy childhood and has complained that his father didn't have time for him.

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I'm sorry, I didn't give you the childhood you deserve - that very rarely comes.

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And often, these people get pressure from others who really don't get what this childhood was like.

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