I worked as a bartender/waitress at a bar inside an upscale health-food grocery store (it's a real thing, I promise). Most of our clientele was well-off retirees and 30-something recently divorced men hoping to get a date with someone coming in after

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

I grew up in a small town where the elementary school was a ten-minute walk from my house and in an age, not so long ago, when children could go home for lunch and find their mothers waiting. 我在一个小镇上长大,在那儿,从我家步行到

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You went to the butchers for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin, and the grocery store for food. But when I spent the summer with my Grandmother in Warwick, N.Y., she sent me down to the general store with a list. How could I hope to find anything on the

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Imagine you are carrying around a faux Prada bag you bought for six dollars. It looks real. It feels real. But how long can you keep convincing yourself that it is? 想象一下你背着六美元淘来的山寨普拉达四处奔走的场景。它看起

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This is how I want to fall in love in 2016... 2016年我想这样去爱 I want to fall in love with the way the sun rises teeming with hope... 我渴望爱上太阳从东边慢慢升起充满希望的景象 I want to fall in love with the warm scent

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I want to fall in love in 2016. 在2016年我渴望坠入爱河 I want to fall head over heels this year. By the very end of it, I want to be bursting at the seams of all my scars with a love burning happily in my heart. 这一年我希望自己爱得死

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Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny, the maxim goes. 从根本上来讲,我们的个性是塑成习惯的成

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第二次生命的启示 拉尔夫.里士满 Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he continued

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When Love Beckons You 当爱召唤你 When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you, yield to him, though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you, believe i

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As an entrepreneur of ten years I've learned all too well what failure feels like. The perpetual wheel of reinventing myself has been the only constant in my life. Ups and downs, highs and lows; the roller coaster of perceived failure can be exhausti

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双语美文:来自内心的礼物

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Graduation and moving on 毕业并继续前进 At least once a year, there are a lot of graduations. 至少每年一次,会有很多的毕业典礼。 Its a time when a lot of people move on, 这是一个很多人继续前进的时刻, from where t

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COST OF LIVING Your money or your life. The choice traditionally presented by the highwayman is supposed to have only one sensible answer. Money is, after all, no use to a corpse. Yet economists often study something rather like the highwayman's offe

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

If you are feeling that life just cannot be any worse for you, it can be challenging to think positive thoughts. When we are stressed, depressed, upset, or otherwise in a negative state of mind because we perceive that bad things keep happening to us

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A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebrations. All had a wonderful time. The bride was gorgeous in her white weddi

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There are so many things I want to do in the short time I'm here. Some of these things scare me, some will challenge me and others are just plain fun。 在我短暂的一生里有许多想做的事。有些令我畏惧,有些却是挑战,还有些

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Let Us SmileThe thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile,That costs the least and does the most,is just a pleasant smile. The smile that bubbles from the heart that loves its fellow men,Will drive away the clouds of gloom and

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How to fuck up your entire day(or life)in 5 simple steps五个会让你虚度人生的简单步骤: Step1.Grab your dumb phone as soon as you wake up,before stretching and having a tall glass of water,and start looking at all the shit everyone else

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The significant inscription found on an old key---If I rest, I rust---would be an excellent motto for those who are afflicted with the slightest bit of idleness. Even the most industrious person might adopt it with advantage to serve as a reminder th

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导读:假如爱一个人,不在于说的如何天花乱坠,一对真正相爱的人,默默的为彼此相守,两个哑巴的爱情故事,延续了一辈子 He is a mute,Although can understand others speech,Cannot say ownactually feeling

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