When Su and I left for rival colleges, they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.
后来，我和苏离开家，分别上了两所对手大学。比奇夫妇在我读书的四年时间里，把我的房间保持原样。最近，芭布给了我一份保险，那是我刚开始搬到他们家时他们给我买的，他们不间断地付了23年保险费。
The Beaches knew all about me when they took me in. When I was seven, my mother died of a 4)self-inflicted gunshot wound and from then on my father relied on other people to raise his kids. By the time I went to live with the Beaches, I believed that life was entirely unfair and that love was 5)tenuous and untrustworthy. I believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.
比奇夫妇在接收我的时候，就了解我的一切。在我七岁的时候，我母亲就死于自己造成的枪伤，从那个时候起，我的爸爸就靠其他人帮他抚养孩子。我开始与比奇这一家人住的时候，我相信生活根本就是不公平的，爱是虚无飘渺、靠不住的。我认为能够照顾好我的人就只有我自己。
Without the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, 6)cynical woman. They gave me a home that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed by my past, and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.
我的生活中如果没有了比奇这一家人，我就会变成一个满腹牢骚、愤世嫉俗的女人。但他们给了我一个让我可以成长、可以改变自己的家，他们没有让我的过去成为我生活的障碍，他们给了我打开心扉的勇气。
I believe in family. For me, it wasn't the family that was there on the day I was born, but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson's on Interstate 10.
我相信家庭。对我来说，家人并不是我出生的那天在等着我的人，而是在我住在十号州际公路旁的豪生汽车旅馆时，向我敞开胸怀的那个“安乐窝”。
