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From The Cabby's Seat
2023-12-05The cabby(计程车司机,马车车夫) has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling. From the high, swaying s...
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My painful cat-sitting adventure 我的痛苦的猫保姆经历
2023-12-05Why and how I got myself into this situation is still unclear to me. A lady friend, a quite good looking lady friend, asked me to check her two cats w...
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A coke and a smile 可乐与微笑
2023-12-05I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five years ago was not a tall man. But to a five-ye...
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Dishes and Responsibilities
2023-12-05On Sundays my father always wore that dull(呆滞的,阴暗的) gray apron(围裙) – the one with the race cars all over it. The ritual(仪式,惯例) began after break...
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The little tin heart
2023-12-05After 20 years as a full-time wife and mother, I decided now that my kids were grown, I needed a part-time job to keep me busy. I decided to drive a s...
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Banana pudding 香蕉布丁
2023-12-05Anytime I see banana pudding on a menu, I'm filled with an euphoric(精神愉快的) sense of well being and taken back to a special moment in my life when ...
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My father
2023-12-05My father was an exceptional man. He may not have been a perfect man. But he was a good man. And he loved us. All I wanted to do today was to give him...
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Salty Coffee
2023-12-05He met her at a party. She was so outstanding, many guys chasing after her, while he was so normal, nobody paid attention to him.At the end of the par...
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A Walk in The Woods
2023-12-05I was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a fuss about an old copse(杂树林,灌木丛) which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters to the lo...
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Plant a Row for the Hungry
2023-12-05It was a cold night in Washington, D.C., and I was heading back to the hotel when a man approached me. He asked if I would give him some money so he c...