Fabricio Cimino wrote: Not long ago I wanted to watch TV, but it wouldn't turn on, so I did everything I could to start it.

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He wore an old double-breasted suit, frayed gray shirt, wide tie, no hat "I left her so long ago I don't remember.

他穿着一件双排扣的旧大衣，一件散口的灰衬衫，和一条宽领带，没有戴帽子，“我很早以前就离开了她。

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I held off for a very long time, but I just got mine a month ago. And now I don't know how I live without it.

我拖了好长时间，一个月前才买的。而且现在我不知道离开它该如何生活。

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It wasn't long ago that we didn't have much information about plastics.

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It wasn't so long ago that many high school kids didn't have to worry about sex.

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"Not so long ago people couldn't work here because armed groups extorted money from them, or they were simply killed for taking bids from the Americans, " he says.

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