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Lovell's next move was hard for even him to believe.
洛弗爾接下來的行為連他自己都難以相信。
He returned the guy's money and declared himself done with the swindler's life.
他把錢還給了那個人，并宣稱從此金盆洗手。
"There was an absolute epiphany that I just couldn't do it anymore," he says.
他說：“我醒悟過來了，我再也不這樣做了。”
The next day, he felt different. Lighter.
第二天，他感覺就不一樣了，放松多了。
"I had become," he says, "a real human being again."
他說：“我再次做回我自己了。”
He never ran another con.
他再也沒有行騙。
In the decades that followed,
在接下來的幾十年里，
Lovell turned his gift for smooth patter and sleight of hand into a successful oneman show that ran off-Broadway for eight years.
洛弗爾把他那花言巧語和巧妙手腕的天賦變成了一場成功的獨角戲，在百老匯上演了八年。
After he suffered a stroke, good wishes and cash donations for his care poured in from friends and fellow magicians.
在他中風(fēng)后，他的朋友和同行們紛紛寄來了美好的祝愿和捐款，以示關(guān)心。
In his professional world and well beyond it, Lovell had become respected, even beloved.
洛弗爾在其專業(yè)領(lǐng)域內(nèi)外廣受尊敬，甚至深得愛戴。
His rehabilitation was complete.
他的身體康復(fù)了。
That moment in the hotel had been Lovell's wake-up call.
旅館里的那一刻喚醒了洛弗爾。
But what is a wake-up call—or, if you'd rather, an epiphany or an aha moment?
但是什么喚醒了洛弗爾呢——是耶穌顯靈，還是幡然醒悟呢?
What could possibly explain an event so unexpected, forceful, and transformative that it cleaves a life into two parts: before and after?
有什么能解釋如此出乎意料、以至于將人生分成兩個部分：之前和之后的巨大轉(zhuǎn)變呢？
