母亲觉得在美国可以实现一切梦想,想当什么就可以当什么。你可以开个餐馆,可以为政府工作,以后能领到可观的退休金。你几乎可以不付现款就能买到一所房子,你可以富有,还可以立即成为名人。“当然,你还可以成为神童,”我在九岁时母亲对我说道,“反正可以出类拔萃。林多阿姨知道什么?她女儿不过是个捣蛋鬼。”美国是母亲寄予了自己全部希望的所在 Mother felt that in the United States can realize all the dreams, what to think what can be. You can open a restaurant, you can work for the government, later can receive a substantial pension. You can buy a house almost without cash, you can become rich and you can become a celebrity immediately. “Of course, you can be a prodigy, too,” said my mother at the age of nine, “who anyhow can excel. What Aunt Lindo knows? Her daughter is nothing more than a rascal.” The United States is where her mother has all her hopes