I appreciated now how very patient, understanding and kind she was to have wasted her time on a little boy.
这时我体会到她曾经浪费时间在一个小男孩身上，是多么地有耐心、善解人意和仁慈。
A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in Seattle.
几年之后，在我到西部上大学的途中，我的飞机在西雅图着陆。
I had about half an hour between plane connections, and I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived
  there now, happily matured by marriage and motherhood.
在转机之间，我大约有半个小时的时间，所以我花了十五分钟左右和我的姊姊通电话。她那时住在那里，就婚姻和母职而言
，她是成熟快乐的。
Then really without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information Please."
那时真的没想到我在做什么，我拨电话给家乡的总机说：「询问处。」
Miraculously, I heard again the small, clear voice I knew so well: "Information."
奇迹地，我又听到我非常熟悉的细小而清楚的声音：「询问处。」
I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying, "Could you tell me, please, how to spell the word 'fix'?"
我并没有计划这样的事，但我听到我自己说：「请你告诉我如何拼写“fix”好吗?」
There was a long pause. Then came the softly spoken answer. "I guess," said Information Please, "that your finger must
  have healed by now."
一阵长的停顿，然后传来语音轻柔的回答。「我猜想，」询问处说，「你的手指头到现在一定是痊愈了。」
I laughed. "So it's really still you" I said. "I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during all that
  time ..."
我笑了。「果然真的还是你，」我说。「我不知道是否你知道在这段时间里，你对我的意义有多大…」
"I wonder," she replied, "if you know how much you meant to me? I never had any children, and I used to look forward to
  your calls. Silly, wasn't it?"
「我不知道，」她回答，「是否你知道你对我的意义有多大？我没有任何的小孩，我经常盼望着你的电话。很傻，不是吗？」
It didn't seem silly, but I didn't say so.
这似乎并不傻，但我没有这样说。
Instead, I told her how often I had thought of her over the years, and I asked if I could call her again when I came
 back to visit my sister after the first semester was over.
我反而告诉她这些年来我是多么常想念她，而且我问她，我在第一学期结束后回来探望我的姊姊时，我是否可以再打电话给她。
"Please do. Just ask for Sally."
「请吧，就说要找莎莉。」

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