I pointed to a spot on the highway not far from where we were standing and said, Remember that ice storm we had when I took office?

我用手指着距我们所站位置不远处的公路上的某个地方说：“还记得我就任时的那场冰风暴吗？”

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We were deep in a federal courthouse near the end of Cadman Plaza in Downtown Brooklyn — a stretch of faceless office blocks and parkland — early on a Friday.

那是一个周五的早上，我们身处布鲁克林闹市区卡德曼广场尽头附近的一座联邦法院大楼里——一片没什么特点的办公楼群和绿地。

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We were told to turn up in the office on Friday afternoon, and we were expecting to be given reduced hours.

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But it was only through continuous dialogue -- at the dinner table with friends who could advise us, and using calm voices in the bedroom with one another, and keeping an open mind on the couch at the therapist's office -- that we were able to find a way to make our familial cultures meet in the middle at our mutual American one.

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As we toured the facilities, League of Legends games were being played or watched on monitors all throughout the office, while splash art of every character adorned the walls wherever we went.

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