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爱裁决 2013年第1期 　　The call came around 3:30 p.m. on a 1)sultry Minnesota day. The 2)hospice social worker, Cheryl, explained the situation in a rush. She had tried 15 judges, and all were either in court or otherwise unavailable. By chance, she had reached me directly. 　　I had just finished a tough trial and was in my chambers surrounded by judicial 3)detritus: legal briefs, scores of exhibits. To be honest, I almost didn’t answer the phone. 　　All I wanted was a drink. 　　That, however, would be considered poor 4)decorum for a judge, and judges lose their jobs over poor decorum. I have a wife and two children. So I tried to shake off my 5)grumpiness and 6)be civil to Cheryl. I asked in my calmest, most 7)Oliver Wendell Holmes voice what I could do for her. 　　She said she needed a judge to perform an emergency wedding. 　　电话是在明尼苏达州一个闷热的下午大概三点半的时候打来的。安养院的社工谢丽尔急匆匆地解释着情况。她已经给十五位法官打过电话了，他们不是在出庭就是抽不出??间。抱着试试看的想法，她直接拨通了我的电话。 　　我刚处理完一桩棘手的案子，现在正在办公室里被一堆琐碎的司法文件杂物包围着：大量的法律案情摘要和物证。说实话，我本没打算接电话。 　　我想做的只是喝上一杯。 　　然而，那么做会让人觉得这法官欠缺礼数，而法官有时会因为不礼貌而丢掉工作。我还有老婆和两个孩子要养。于是，我努力控制自己的坏脾气，客气地回应谢丽尔。我用自己最平静、最奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯式的口吻问她我可以为她做些什么。 　　她说她需要一位法官为一场紧急的婚礼主持证婚。 　　 　　Believe it or not, this was not my first such request of the week. In fact, I often receive these requests, usually involving the need to get a 8)waiver to avoid the required five-day waiting period. Sometimes I am 9)sympathetic, as when the request is spurred by a sudden 10)deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. 　　But generally I don’t like to reward those who leave matters like the arrangement of a wedding until the day they want it to happen. I was tired of the seemingly endless series of calls from people with ridiculous, 11)impulsive requests. 　　But Cheryl begged; she practically 12)yanked my bleeding heart right out of my chest. She explained that she was a hospice social worker for Thomas, 77, who had recently been discharged from the medical center hospice unit so he could die at home. He was conscious and 13)lucid but likely to die