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经典英语美文故事阅读 My Father’s Evening Star By William O. Douglas During moments of sadness or frustration, I often think of a family scene years ago in the town of Yakima, Washington. I was about seven or eight years old at the time. Father had died a few years earlier. Mother was sitting in the living room talking to me, telling me what a wonderful man Father was. She told me of his last illness and death. She told me of his departure from Cleveland, Washington, to Portland, Oregon…for what proved to be a fatal operation. His last words to her were these: “If I die it will be glory,