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A Doll for Great-Grandmother 送给曾祖母的洋娃娃 When my grandfather died, my 83-year-old grandmother, once so full of life, slowly began to fade. No longer able to manage a home of her own, she moved in with my mother, where she was visited often by other members of her large, loving family (two children, eight grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren). Although she still had her good days, it was often hard to arouse her interest.

我爷爷去世后，我83岁的奶奶渐渐失去了原有的活力。由于奶奶无法再

照顾自己，所以她搬去和我妈妈一起住。我们一家是个充满爱的大家庭（奶奶有两个孩子，8个孙辈，22个曾孙辈，还有两个玄孙辈），大家经常去看望她。尽管奶奶的日子过得挺舒适，她却对什么事都提不起兴趣。 But one chilly December afternoon three years ago, my daughter Meagan, then eight, and I were settling in for a long visit with “GG”, as the family calls her, when she noticed that Meagan was carrying her favorite doll. 三年前十二月里的一天下午，天气阴冷，我和当时才8岁的女儿米根去看

望GG（家里人都这么称呼她），并在那儿住了一段时间。奶奶看见米根抱着她心爱的洋娃娃。 “I, too, had a special doll when I was a little girl,” she told Meagan. “I got it one Christmas when I was about your age. I lived in an old farmhouse in Maine, with Mom, Dad and my four sisters, and the very first gift I opened that Christmas was the most beautiful doll you’d ever want to see.”

“小时候我也有一个很特别的洋娃娃，”奶奶告诉米根，“那是我的圣诞礼

物，那时我和你现在差不多大。我和父母、四个姐妹住在缅因州的一个老农场里。那年圣诞我打开的第一份礼物是一个非常漂亮的娃娃，那么漂亮，见过之后你也许不会再想看别的洋娃娃了。” “She had an exquisite, hand-painted porcelain face, and her long brown hair was pulled back with a big pink bow. Her eyes were blue as blue could be, and they opened and closed. I remember she had a body of kidskin, and her arms and legs bent at the joints.” 精品文档 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 “洋娃娃有一张精致的、手绘的瓷脸，长长的棕色头发用一个粉红色蝴蝶结束在脑后，眼睛是标准的蓝色，还眨巴眨巴的。我还记得她的身体是用小山羊皮做的，手脚关节还可以动呢。” GG’s voice dropped low, taking on an almost reverent tone. “My doll was dressed in a pretty pink gown, trimmed with fine lace. But what I especially remember was her petticoat. It was fine linen, trimmed with rows and rows of delicate

lace. And the tiny buttons on her boots were real. … Getting such a fine doll was like a

miracle for a little farm girl like me — my parents must have had to sacrifice so much to afford it. But how happy I was that morning!” GG的声音忽然沉了下去，她用一种几乎是虔诚的语调在叙说。“我的洋娃

娃穿着一件漂亮的粉红礼服，边上绣着精致的蕾丝。我印象最深刻的是她穿的亚麻布料的衬裙，上边绣着一排排精致的蕾丝。她靴子上的小钮扣还是真的……对于我这个农家女儿来说，得到这样一个可爱的洋娃娃简直就是一个奇迹，为了买她，我的父母一定牺牲了很多。那天早上我太高兴了。” GG’s eyes filled and her voice shook with emotion as she recalled that Christmas of long ago. “I played with my doll all morning long. She was such a beautiful doll. … And then it happened. My mother called us to the dining room for Christmas dinner and I laid my new doll down, ever so gently, on the hall table. But as I went to join the family at the table, I heard a loud crash.”

GG的眼眶湿润了，她用颤抖的声音叙说着很久以前的那个圣诞节。“整个

上午我都在玩这个洋娃娃，她太漂亮了……然而悲剧发生了。妈妈叫我们去饭厅吃圣诞晚餐，我轻轻地把洋娃娃放在厅里的桌子上。我走过去和家人一起吃饭，猛然听见一声巨响。” “I hardly had to turn around — I knew it was my precious doll. I just knew it. And it was. Her lace petticoat had hung down from the table just enough for my baby sister to reach up and pull on it. When I ran in from the dining room, 精品文档 收集于网络，如有侵权请联系管理员删除 there lay my beautiful doll on the floor, her face smashed into a dozen pieces. I can still see my mother trying to put my poor doll together again. But it couldn’t be done. She was gone forever.”

“我不用回头看就知道那是我的宝贝洋娃娃。我能感觉到。果然没错。洋娃

娃的蕾丝衬裙垂到桌子旁，刚好我的小妹妹够得着，把她拉了下来。我从饭厅冲过去，只见我的洋娃娃躺在地上，脸摔成了十几块。我还记得妈妈正试着帮我把那可怜的洋娃娃重新拼起来。但是怎么弄都不行。我的洋娃娃就这样没了。” A few years later, GG’s baby sister was also gone, she told Meagan, a victim of pneumonia. Now the tears in her eyes spilled over — tears, I knew, not only for a lost doll and a lost sister, but for a lost time. GG告诉米根，几年后小妹妹因为肺炎也永远离开了。 GG这时满脸泪

水，我知道她流泪不止是因为失去了洋娃娃和小妹妹，更因为那逝去的年华。 Subdued for the rest of the visit, Meagan was no sooner in the car going home than she exclaimed, “Mom, I have a great idea! Let’s get GG a new doll for Christmas, one exactly like the doll that got broken. Then she won’t cry when she thinks about it.”

米根郁郁寡欢地度过了剩下的几天，我们该回家了。一上车她就叫道：“妈

妈，我有一个好主意。我们送给GG一个新洋娃娃作圣诞礼物吧，跟那个摔破的洋娃娃一模一样的。那她再也不用想到它就哭了。” My heart filled with pride as I listened to my compassionate little daughter. But where would we find a doll to match GG’s fond memories?

看到我的女儿这么富有同情心，我觉得很骄傲。可是我们上哪儿去找一个与GG的美好记忆中一模一样的洋娃娃呢？ Where there’s a will, as they say, there’s a way. When I told my best friends, Liz and Chris, about my problem, Liz put me in touch with a local dollmaker who made doll heads, hands and feet of a ceramic that closely resembled the old porcelain ones.