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愛的小紙條
Love Notes
It's been over eleven years now. It was a wintry afternoon, the snow swirling around the cedar trees outside, forcing little icicles to form at the tips of the deep green foliage clinging to the branches.
11年前，那是一個寒冬的下午，窗外，大片的雪花繞著雪松盤旋飛舞，枝頭深綠色的葉尖上掛著小小的冰柱。
My older son, Stephen, was at school, and Reed , my husband, at work .My three little ones were clustered around the kitchen counter, the tabletop piled high with crayons and markers.
我的大兒子史蒂芬去上學了，丈夫里德去上班了，三個小孩擠在廚柜旁，桌面上堆著蠟筆和記號筆。
Tom was perfecting a paper airplane, creating his own insignia with stars and dtripes,while Sam worked on a self-portrait, his chubby hands drawing first a head, then legs and arms sticking out where the body should have been.
湯姆正畫著星條旗徽章，為紙飛機做漂亮的裝飾。湯姆正忙著畫自畫像，他胖乎乎的小手先畫了一個頭，然后在應當畫身體的位置畫了腿和胳膊。
The children mostly concentrated on their work, Tom occasionally tutoring his younger brother on excatly how to make a plane that would fly the entire length of the room.
孩子們都全神貫注地忙著手上的活兒，湯姆不時地告訴弟弟怎樣正確地制作一架能夠穿行于整間屋子的飛機。
But Laura, our only daughter, sat quietly, engrossed in her project. Every once in a while she would ask how to spell the name of someone in our family, then painstakingly form the letters one by one.
我們唯一的女兒勞拉靜靜地坐在那里，聚精會神地忙著她的事。她偶爾也會問如何拼寫我們家庭某成員的名字，然后極為困難地逐個字母拼寫出來。
Next , she would add flowers with smaill green stems, complete with grass lining the bottom of the page.
接著，她畫了一些有著嫩綠小莖的花朵，在紙張的底部添些草邊。
She finished off each with a sun in the upper right hand corner,surrounded by an inch or two of blue sky. Holding them at eye level, she let out a long sigh of satisfaction.
每完成一頁，她都會在右上角處畫一片藍天，中間是太陽。然后把它們舉到眼前欣賞一番，心滿意足地長舒一口氣。
"What are you making, Honey?" I asked.
“寶貝，你干什么呢？”我問道。
She glanced at her brothers beofre looking back at me:
看我之前她瞥了一眼她的兄弟們。
"It's a surprise," she said, covering up her work with her hands.
“這是一個驚喜。”她雙手捂住了作品。
Next , she taped the top two edges of each sheet of paper together trying her best to create a cylinder. When she had finished, she disappered up the stairs with her treasure.
接著，她把每張紙的上下兩邊粘貼起來，盡量做成一個圓筒。做好后，她帶著那些寶貝跑上樓梯，消失不見了。
