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She recalled their Paris moment in a poignant email she sent to him twenty-five years later,
25年之后，她在給他的一封令人心酸的郵件中追憶了在巴黎的那一幕。
after they had gone their separate ways but retained their spiritual connection.
他們后來分開了，卻一直保持著精神交流。
We were on a bridge in Paris in the summer of 1985. It was overcast.
1985年夏，我們在巴黎的一座橋上。陰天。
We leaned against the smooth stone rail and stared at the green water rolling on below.
我們倚在光滑的石欄上，看著綠色的水從橋下流過。
Your world had cleaved and then it paused, waiting to rearrange itself around whatever you chose next.
你的世界破裂了，停滯了，等著你選擇方向再重新安排。
I wanted to run away from what had come before.
我想逃離過去遇到的一切。
I tried to convince you to begin a new life with me in Paris,
我試圖說服你跟我一起在巴黎開始新的生活，
to shed our former selves and let something else course through us.
拋下我們過去的自我，體驗別樣的人生。
I wanted us to crawl through that black chasm of your broken world and emerge,
我希望我們可以穿越你那破碎的世界黑暗的深淵，走出來，
anonymous and new, in simple lives where I could cook you simple dinners and we could be together every day,
隱姓埋名，重新開始，過簡單的生活，我為你做晚餐，我們可以每天廝守，
like children playing a sweet game with no purpose save the game itself.
就像孩子玩一個美妙的游戲，沒有任何目的，只為了游戲本身的快樂。
I like to think you considered it before you laughed and said "What could I do? I've made myself unemployable."
我多希望你能先想一想再大笑著說，“我能干什么呢？我已經把自己槁得沒人敢用了。”
I like to think that in that moment's hesitation before our bold futures reclaimed us,
我多希望在我們被冷酷的未來俘虜之前，在那一刻的猶豫不決中，
we lived that simple life together all the way into our peaceful old ages,
我們選擇了一直過那種簡單的生活直到我們平靜的晚年，
with a brood of grandchildren around us on a farm in the south of France,
在法國南部的一處農場，兒孫繞膝，盡享天倫，
quietly going about our days, warm and complete like loaves of fresh bread,
日子像新鮮出爐的面包那么溫暖充實，
our small world filled with the aroma of patience and familiarity.
我們小小的世界里彌漫著耐心和熟悉的芳香。
