1971年的春天，我遇到了一个女孩。

The first time I saw her we were, appropriately enough, in a class on political and civil rights. She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and self-possession that I found magnetic.

我第一次见到她，是在政治与公民权利的课堂上，真应景。她金发浓密，戴着一副大眼镜，素面朝天，自带一种坚毅和沉着的气场，我被她深深地吸引了。

年轻时的希拉里。

After the class I followed her out, intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back, but I couldn’t do it. Somehow I knew this would not be just another tap on the shoulder, that I might be starting something I couldn’t stop.

课后，我尾随她出了教室，想要自我介绍。我走得离她那么近，近到能伸手碰到她的背，但还是不敢。不知怎么地，我意识到，这不会是拍拍肩膀那么简单，这可能会是一件一旦开始就停不下来的事情。

And I saw her several more times in the next few days, but I still didn’t speak to her. Then one night I was in the law library talking to a classmate who wanted me to join the Yale Law Journal. He said it would guarantee me a job in a big firm or a clerkship with a federal judge. I really wasn’t interested, I just wanted to go home to Arkansas.

接下来几天，我又见到她好几次，但一直没有开口和她说话。之后，有个晚上我正在法学图书馆里和一个同学聊天，那人想劝我加入《耶鲁法律期刊》，他说这份经历将能保我拿到好工作，比如在大公司任职或者成为联邦法官的书记员。但我实在不感兴趣，那时我只想回阿肯色州的老家。

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