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We were gathered together, all ten of us, for our widowed mother's 80th birthday.
我們總共十個人，聚在一起祝賀已成為寡婦的媽媽的八十歲生日。
The conversation was of early struggles, walking to work and saving up in clothing clubs, when my elder sister said,
談的話題是我們家早年的艱辛，走著去上班，在“新衣會”里存錢準備買衣裳。這時我姐姐說：
"Of course, we were bound to be poor because we were such a big family.
“當然，我們的生活沒法子不艱難，因為我們家孩子太多了。
Mom, why did you have so many children?"
媽媽，您為什么要生這么多的孩子呢？”
Mother looked around at us all and said,
媽媽看了我們一圈說：
"Well, where did you want to me to stop?"
“那么，你想讓我在哪兒停住呢？”
