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She was eight years old, our first day of grade three when she got called ugly.
我認(rèn)識一個女孩，9歲升到三年級的第一天便有人喚她丑。
We both got moved to the back of class so we would stop getting bombarded by spitballs.
我倆都搬到了教室后排，這樣就不會老是被人丟紙團(tuán)了。
But the school halls were a battleground. We found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day.
但是學(xué)校的走廊還是跟戰(zhàn)場一樣。我們寡不敵眾，每天都被人欺負(fù)。
We used to stay inside for recess, because outside was worse.
我們常常躲在學(xué)校，因為外面的環(huán)境更糟。
Outside, we'd have to rehearse running away, or learn to stay still like statues, giving no clues that we were there.
在外面，我們需要時刻準(zhǔn)備做著逃跑的準(zhǔn)備，或者像雕塑一樣一動不動，不讓人注意到。
In grade five, they taped a sign to the front of her desk that read, "Beware of dog."
五年級的時候，他們在她的課桌前貼了一張紙，上面寫著，“注意，狗出沒。”
To this day, despite a loving husband, she doesn't think she's beautiful,
時至今日，她都無法發(fā)現(xiàn)自己的美，即使她有深愛她的丈夫，
because of a birthmark that takes up a little less than half her face.
因為她的臉上，有一塊小小的胎記。
Kids used to say, "She looks like a wrong answer that someone tried to erase, but couldn't quite get the job done."
小伙伴們總說，“她的臉就像是寫了錯誤答案的紙，被人用橡皮擦來擦去，卻總是擦不干凈。”
And they'll never understand that she's raising two kids whose definition of beauty begins with the word "Mom,"
他們永遠(yuǎn)的無法理解，她撫養(yǎng)的兩個孩子，將身為母親的她視為美的化身，
because they see her heart before they see her skin, because she's only ever always been amazing.
因為她的孩子先看到了她的內(nèi)心，然后才是她的皮膚，只有她的內(nèi)心一直保持著如此的迷人。
He was a broken branch grafted onto a different family tree, adopted, not because his parents opted for a different destiny.
這個男生被嫁接在另外一個家庭上被人領(lǐng)養(yǎng)，并不是因為他的父母離婚了。
He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy,
他在三歲的時候就飲下了一杯孤獨、兩杯苦難勾兌的酒，
started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills,
八年級的時候開始接受治療，各種心理測試和藥丸塑造了他的人格，
lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs, four-fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants,
他的生活就像是過山車一樣顛簸不定，四五次自殺未遂，一波一波的抗抑郁藥，
and an adolescent being called "Popper," one part because of the pills, 99 parts because of the cruelty.
還有“嗜藥者”的外號，1%是由于這些藥丸，99%是因為生活的殘酷。
He tried to kill himself in grade 10 when a kid who could still go home to Mom and Dad had the audacity to tell him, "Get over it."
十年級的時候嘗試自殺，那個時候他還在家住，他的爸爸媽媽跟他說的只是，“你要克服它。”
As if depression is something that could be remedied by any of the contents found in a first-aid kit.
就好像抑郁可以輕易的被急救藥箱里面的什么東西修復(fù)好的一樣。
