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Ballad of the Bottom Dollar
最后一美元
Cameron , Mounger and I have been friends since we were teenagers.
卡梅倫，我和mounger自從我們青少年的時候就是朋友。
Both of us liked rock'n'roll, and several years after we left high school, Cam became a disc jockey.
我們都喜歡搖滾樂，我們離開高中幾年之后，卡梅倫成了一名DJ。
Recently he told me the story about the day he was down to his last dollar.
最近有一天他告訴了我他只剩一美元那天的故事。
It was the day his luck and his life changed.
那一天，他的運氣和他的生活都改變了。
In the early 1970s, Cam was an announcer and disc jockey at KYAL in McKinney, Texas, and had attained celebrity status.
在上世紀70年代早期，卡梅倫在德克薩斯，麥金尼的kyal當一個播音員和電臺主持人。并頗有一點名氣。
He met many country-music stars, and he enjoyed flying to Nashville in the company plane with the owner.
他遇到了許多的鄉村音樂明星，他喜歡和飛機公司的老板一起乘坐飛機飛到納什維爾。
One night Cam was in Nashville for an evening at the Grand Ole Opry.
一天晚上，卡梅倫在納什維爾的Grand Ole Opry大劇院享受夜晚。
After the show an acquaintance invited him backstage with all the Opry stars, "I didn't have any paper for autographs, so I took out a dollar bill," Cam told me, "Before the night ended, I had virtually every Opry personality's autograph, I guarded that dollar bill and carried it with me always, I knew I would treasure it forever."
表演結束后，一位熟人邀請他和后臺所有該大劇院的明星留個紀念，“我沒有一張紙可以拿來簽名，所以我拿出一美元，“卡梅倫告訴我，“那晚之后，我幾乎有Opry明星的個性簽名，我謹慎的保存著這張美元而且就一直帶在身邊，我知道我會永遠珍惜它。”
The station KYAL was put up for sale, and many employees found themselves without a job, Cam landed part-time work at VBAP in Fort Worth and planned to hang on to this job long enough for a full-time position to open up.
kyal關閉出售了，很多員工發現沒有了工作，卡梅倫便在沃斯堡VBAP做兼職，希望能在那工作足夠長時間等到一個全職的站點開放。
The winter of 1976-77 was extremely cold. The heater in Cam's old Volkswagen emitted only a hint of warm air; the windshield defroster didn't work at all.
1976到1977年的冬季非常寒冷?？穫惖睦洗蟊娂訜崞靼l出只有一絲溫暖的空氣；擋風玻璃的除霜器也壞了。
Life was hard, and Cam was broke.
生活是艱苦的，卡梅倫破產了。
With the help of a friend who worked at a local supermarket, he occasionally intercepted outdated, dumpster-bound TV dinners. "This kept my wife and me eating, but we still had no cash."
在一個朋友在當地一家超市工作的朋友的幫助下，他偶爾得到一些過期的，和一些冷凍餐。“我和我妻子就這樣一直吃這些過活，但我們仍然沒有錢。”
