回到家里，她把衣包堆在她儿子卧室的地板上。她命令到：“你需要改变，”然后在那等着，这时我对母亲的那种情感已彻底消失了。她看了眼手上的一堆脏衣服，说：“谢天谢地。你以后不用再穿这些了。”

    She rushed off to start dinner and left me waiting in the bedroom for her three children to return from school. I didn't know what else to do, so I just sat there, alone.

    她匆忙离去准备晚餐，留我一人在卧室等她的三个孩子放学回家。我不知道还能做些其它的什么事，所以只有坐在那，孤单一人。

    Christopher arrived first. He was four years older than I. When he saw me sitting on his bed, his first words were "She didn't tell me another one of you was coming."

    克里斯托弗最先到家 ......