每当我和我的兄弟姐妹们相聚时,总不免要谈到爸爸。我们大家在生活中的成功都要归功于他——和一天夜里他在火车上遇到的一个神秘的人。我们的父亲西蒙·亚历山大·哈利出生于1892年,在田纳西州的农业小镇萨瓦纳长大。他是亚历克·哈利和一位名叫奎恩的女人的第八个孩子。祖父原是一个意志坚强的黑奴,后来有时当佃农。我祖母虽然敏感、感情丰富,但她自己也常常十分倔强,尤其 Whenever I meet my brothers and sisters, I can not help but talk about Dad. The success of all of us in our lives owed to him - and a mysterious man he met on the train one night. Our father, Simon Alexander Harry, was born in 1892 and grew up in the agricultural town of Tennessee, Savannah. He is the eighth child of Alec Harley and a woman named Quinn. Grandfather was originally a strong-minded slave, and later sometimes tenant farmers. Although my grandmother is sensitive and emotionally rich, she is often very stubborn, especially