距离保护英文美文完美情人节

2021年1月13日发(作者：寿柏年)
Perfect Valentine完美情人节
By Jaye Lewis
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小云 译
在这世界上，所有拥有爱或者等待爱的人都想明白一件事情 ：爱情如何才算
美满？当爱情逾越了年龄的界限，熬过了疾病的磨练，偿还了生活的遗憾，难道
还不是一份极致的完美吗？
When my husband and I first became friends, we had no idea of any age
difference between us: he’s younger than me. I had
1)
inherited great
2)
genes, so at the
age of 34 I was still slim and young looking. Louie was fun, with a great sense of play,
and yet, unafraid to take on new challenges.
We were married at a friend’s home, with three little
3)
bridesmaids breathlessly
waiting to call Louie “Daddy.”—he adopted our daughters exactly two years after the
day we had met. He is faithful and loving, and the best friend I have ever had.
However through the years, I thought that I had missed out on that romantic
dinner by candle light, Louie dropping to one knee, holding out an
4)
engagement ring
and begging me to marry him.
Then began my health problems. Where my body once was slim and strong, it
soon became
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medicated and plump. I walked and walked and walked when I was
well; and, yet, no amount of exercise could bring my body back to where it once was.
By the time we had been married nearly fifteen years, one look in the mirror was
enough to send my self-esteem
6)
plummeting.
Louie was always loving and exciting, but I wondered if I was. I’d look at my
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wedding band as it got tighter and had to be
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resized. I mused that surely Louie
I
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slipped a dozen cards into every
10)
cubbyhole that day, watching as he
could not want me that much anymore.
joyously found and read them. But, there was nothing in the house for me, except a
dinner later at a restaurant.
We ordered our drinks, and then the meal, and we watched the sun go down in
brilliant splendor, and Louie handed me my card. It said all the wonderful things that
always make me cry. Then suddenly he moved, and pushed his chair back. Swiftly,
out of the bag, came a small
11)
velvet pillow and a small box. I was stunned to see my
husband kneel on the pillow and hold out the little box. Astonished, I backed my chair
up.
“Jaye, I love you!” Louie declared, opening the box to expose a lovely diamond
ring. “I know I don’t deserve it, but will you marry me?!”
“Oh
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my!” I heard from the waitress behind me. All eyes in the room turned
their attention to this
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intensely private, shy, wonderful man. The room
14)
exploded