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We think that it is the wrong person we’ve mistakenly got together with,
我們會誤以為自己選錯了伴侶，
rather than keeping in mind that we’re with a pretty right person trying to do an exceptionally tricky thing: share a home.
但我們該做的是告訴自己對方很好，只是二人共處一室生活太難了。
It may in the end – strangely – just be a lot easier to love than to share a bathroom.
到頭來，或許會發現：愛一個人比公用一間浴室簡單多了。
Our love stories are suffering from a mistaken cultural hierarchy.
我們的愛情受制于一個錯誤的文化等級觀念。
Just as the book is often wrongly thought more important than the essay, so the live-in relationship is too readily assumed to be superior to the long-range version.
就像人們認為書籍比文章更有價值一樣，人們也常常認為同居關系比異地戀更加優越。
And yet, without ever meaning to do so, the long-distance relationship may simply, despite all its evident challenges,
顯然，異地戀給戀人們帶來不少困難，
throw up some of the absolutely ideal conditions for true love to thrive.
但它也在無意中為愛情的成長提供了絕佳的條件。
We should be wise to imbibe a few of the lessons life normally only teaches us when they’re in Sydney and you’re in Vancouver
我們應該學習其中的價值，因為往往兩人分處兩地時，你才有機會學習到生活給我們上的這一課，
and carefully import them into our lives, even with the people unfortunate enough to be right next to us.
然后細心將其運用于生活中——即使你的ta不幸就在你身旁。
