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In the summer of my eleventh year the home I had grown up in burned to the ground in the middle of the night. 11岁的时候，我住的房子在半夜三更被烧成了灰烬，那里曾是我长大的地方。 Thankfully, my Mom, Dad, Nana, brothers, and I escaped along with our dogs. 幸运的是，我的爸爸、妈妈、奶奶、几个哥哥，还有我，包括我们养的几条狗，都逃了出来。 Yet, we had nothing but the night clothes we were sleeping in. 不过，除了穿着睡觉的一身睡衣，我们也一无所剩了。 I spent the rest of that night with friends of our family trying unsuccessfully to sleep in a bed in their attic . 我们借宿到了一个朋友家里，住在他们的阁楼上，那天的后半夜，我躺在床上辗转难眠。 I was too scared to doze off, though. I didn’t know what lay ahead for us. 我太害怕了，不敢睡着。我不知道在未来等待着我们的是怎样的命运。 The next day my Mom brought me a few t-shirts and pairs of jeans given to her by another friend. 第二天，我妈妈给我带回了几件T恤，还有几条裤子，这是她的另一个朋友送给她的。 One pair of them was too short and the other pair too long but I didn’t care. At least I had some clothes again. 其中一条牛仔裤非常短，另外一条又太长了，可是我并不在意。至少我又有衣服穿了。 | 
