她问：我可以抱他吗？

"Can I hold him?" she asked.

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上一次我的丈夫抱他的时候，他还是个婴儿。

The last time my husband held him, he was just a baby.

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他母亲抱他上了楼，将他放在神人的床上，关上门出来

She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.

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And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

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