The widowed elder man looked on with satisfaction as his only child became an experienced art collector.

这位丧偶的老人眼看着自己的独子逐渐长成一位富有经验的艺术品收藏家，感到无比欣慰。

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The tender, introverted eleven-year-old protagonist, Bud Davies (Leigh McCormack), is nurtured in a milieu of working-class gentility by his widowed mother and his three elder siblings (two brothers and a sister).

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