He gets a job as a blogger[23], then starts his own website.
The book’s down to its last pages.
I’ve defined myself as a mother for 18 years. Who am I now? I look in the mirror. In my quest to help him grow wings, I forgot to grow some of my own. Can I find a new sense of purpose, rechannel the love?
Before I was a mother I was a daughter, infused with energy and the unspoken reassurance that my parents would always be there.[24] But I can’t be a daughter again. I’m on my own.
Does purpose—mine, yours, anyone’s—require someone to nurture it, or is it inherent[25] in all of us?
I’ll soon be putting these competing theories to the test.[26]
As I sit down to write this piece, I receive his text: Where are you?
Here, I text back.
Vocabulary
1. agreed-upon: 商定(同意)某事的;shorthand: 简短而意思隐晦的表达;still-unexamined: 仍然未经核实的;destination: 目的地。
2. frame: 构造。
3. trigger: 引发。
4. companion: 陪伴;emerge: 出现。
5. reverberate: 回响。
6. caution: v. 警告,提醒;elusive: 难以捉摸的;savor: 尽情享受。
7. clichéd: 陈词滥调的,老套的。
8. intoxicating: 使人兴奋的。
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