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1 I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes 我是来给你擦鞋的 In shock, I stumbled around the house trying to decide what to put into the suitcases. Earlier that evening, I’d received a call from my mother telling me that my brother and his wife, along with his sister-in-law and both of her children, had been killed in a car crash. “Come as soon as you can,” Mom begged. 我沉浸在震惊之中，踉踉跄跄地在房子里走来走去，试图决定往手提箱里放些什么。那天晚上早些时候，我接到母亲的电话，她告诉我说，我的哥哥嫂子，还有哥哥的大姨子和大姨子的两个孩子，都死于车祸。“尽快赶过来吧!”妈妈恳求道。 That’s what I wanted to do—to leave at once, to hurry to my parents in my Missouri hometown. But my husband, Larry, and I were in the midst