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‘My family hid me away for months. I tried to change into a different person-with shorter hair, a moustache, quiet suits.
我的家里人把我隐匿了几个月。我尽力想变成个完全不同的人——剪短头发，留起胡子，穿着不显眼的衣服。
All my money went to Great and she changed her name to Ross.
我所有的钱都归了格里塔，她把姓改为罗斯。
I told her to buy this island. Now I invest her money, the money that was mine. And now I’m ‘James Ross.’
我叫她买下这个岛。现在我用她的钱投资，这钱原来是我的。现在我是“詹姆斯·罗斯。”
‘What about ‘James Rosso?’ I asked.
“那杰克·罗索呢？”我问。
‘Jake Rosso took drugs,’ he said. ‘Jake Rosso got drunk and crashed cars.
“杰克·罗斯吸毒。”他说，“杰克·罗索喝醉了酒，撞了车。
He killed a young girl, so he had to ‘die’.
他撞死了一个年轻姑娘，所以他不得不‘死’。”
I can never forget the girl. I think about her every day.’
我永远也忘不了那个女孩。我天天想着她。”
‘And that’s who you always look so sad,’ I thought.
“而那便是你为何总显得那么忧郁的原因，”我想。
I looked around the room. ‘Why do you keep a room like this?
我环视了一下这个房间。“你为什么把房间保持这个样子？
Why do you keep the guitars, the posters and photographs?’
你为什么保留这些吉他、海报和照片？”
James Ross did not speak for a minute.
詹姆斯·罗斯沉默了片刻。
Then he said, ‘I need to remember my old life, and what Jake Rosso was like.
然后他说：“我需要记住原来的生活，记住杰克·罗索曾是个什么样子。
I’m never going to sing again and I’m never going to take drugs.
我绝不会再唱歌，也绝不会吸毒。
But I need this room, to remember.’
可是我需要这个房间，以回忆过去。”
未完待续～
