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莫里斯: 恭喜你新書完成啦！它是關于什么的呢？
Toni: It’s about a girl whose parents abandoned her at birth and who ends up living on the streets. She experiences abuse and is put in juvie.
托妮: 是關于一個小女孩，她在出生時就被父母遺棄了，只能在大街上流浪。她遭遇了虐待并被安置在少年教養院里。
Morris: Wow, that sounds heavy. Wasn’t your last book about children whose parents served time in prison and who lived in fear of bullies in their neighborhood?
莫里斯: 哇，故事聽起來很沉重啊。你的上一本書也是關于孩子，他們的父母在監獄里服刑，而他們整天生活在附近街區惡霸的恐懼中，對嗎？
Toni: Yes, I wrote that after my first book, which was about a brother and sister who lived in an impoverished home traumatized by events beyond their control.
托妮: 對的，那是我的第二本書。我的第一本書是關于一對生活在一貧如洗的家庭中的兄妹，他們的心靈受到了他們無法控制的事情的傷害。
Morris: Do you ever write about happy childhoods?
莫里斯: 你寫過關于快樂的童年的書嗎？
Toni: I do write about happy childhoods. All of the children and teenagers in my books are very resilient. They are survivors.
托妮: 我當然寫過這類的內容。我書中的孩子和少年都是很有可塑性的。他們都是幸存者。
Morris: I was thinking about children who have normal childhoods with two parents living in the suburbs.
莫里斯: 我指的是和父母一起生活在郊區，有一個正常童年的孩子？
Toni: You call that normal? You think they’d be happy? I bet there’s an underbelly of crime and misery in most seemingly perfect families.
托妮: 你認為那樣正常？你覺得他們會快樂？我相信在多數看起來很完美的家庭中，都蘊藏著罪惡和痛苦。
Morris: I’ve no doubt that if that were true, you’d be the one to write about it.
莫里斯: 我堅信如果真是那樣的話，那一定是你寫出來的。
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