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When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed.
你生病時，你很擔心你不能給我我想要的，因為你覺得我需要。
You needn't have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true—you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else—but I want you to stand there.
你不必擔心。正如我曾經告訴過你，我沒有什么需要，因為我愛你的方式有很多種。現在看來這再正確不過了，現在你無法給予我什么，但我依然愛你，愛到我無法再愛別人。我想讓你站在這里。
You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
雖然你已死去，卻強于任何活著的人。
I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don't want to be in my way.
你肯定會認為我很愚蠢，你希望我獲得幸福，不想妨礙我。
I'll bet you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years.
我打賭你會很驚訝兩年后我還沒有女朋友（除了你，親愛的）。
But you can't help it, darling, nor can I—I don't understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don't want to remain alone—but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes.
但你控制不了，親愛的，我也不能。我不懂，我遇到過很多女孩，非常好的女孩，我也不想單身。但兩三次見面后，卻發現她們都是虛有其表。
You only are left to me. You are real.
我只有你。你是真實的。
My darling wife, I do adore you.
我親愛的妻子，我愛你。
I love my wife. My wife is dead.
我愛我的妻子，我的妻子去世了。
Rich.
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PS Please excuse my not mailing this—but I don't know your new address.
另外，請原諒這封信無法寄出，因為我不知道你的新地址。
