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双语美文阅读：怜悯的力量 Julie was eight when I first came across her as a psychotherapist. She was silent, refusing to disclose anything about her life at home. I had a sense of her profound hunger as she touched every toy and pressed the dolls into her face in intense embrace. Then she disappeared. 我第一次见到朱莉是她八岁那年，那时我是一个心理医生。她很沉默，拒绝透露所有关于她在家里的生活情况。当她抚摸每一个玩具，并把娃娃紧紧地贴在脸上时，我感到她有一种强烈的渴望。之后，她就音信全无。 Four years later, when I founded Kids Company, a childrens charity, I heard a child screaming at the gate. It was Julie. She was now the carer of her three younger siblings. Her mum and dad did drugs and crime. The children looked hungry, gaunt, dishevelled, and yet Julie was glowing beneath the dirt. 四年后，我成立了一家名为儿童公司的儿童慈善组织，某天我听到了门口有孩子的尖叫声。是朱莉。她现在照顾着三个年幼的兄弟姐妹。她父母吸毒、犯罪。这些孩子看起来饿坏了，骨瘦如柴，蓬头垢面，但朱莉却出淤泥而不染。 They hadnt been in school since shed disappeared. Within a month of being with us, her father was imprisoned, leaving her mum without the drugs she needed. She forced Julie into prostitution, pimping her to facilitate her addiction. Julie hid food so she could feed her younger siblings. At night, Julie would shelter her siblings in her bed, while drug-dealers squirted blood on to the walls. One day the police raided the house. Her favourite dog jumped to protect her, and they blew his brains out in front of the kids. 她消失之后，弟妹就不再上学。和我们待了一个月后，她父亲出狱了，她母亲也没有了毒品的来源。她便强迫朱莉卖淫，为朱莉拉皮条来满足她的毒瘾。朱莉藏了一些食物，这样她可以养活她的弟妹们。晚上，当毒品贩子来家捣乱，往墙上泼血时，她会保护她的弟妹们。她最喜爱的狗狗跳出来保护她时，毒品贩子当着孩子们的面打爆了它的脑袋。 After a year and a half of Kids Companys relentless advocacy, the three siblings were taken into care. Julie was left, negotiating the traumas of her childhood. But heres the rub: 10 years later, she is inspirational. She looks out for the vulnerable children on her estate. She fights for them with breath-taking thoughtfulness. Born into such moral corruption, how did she get to be so ethically extraordinary? And what did Julie know from such a young age that all of us could learn from? 经过儿童公司一年半的不懈支持，三个弟妹都受到了很好的照顾。朱莉被