I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground, as if it were somehow Kryptonite, as if it were a time bomb
我认识著名的音乐家， 我认识演员和影星，百万富翁和作家 高级律师和电视高管 杂志编辑和国家记者 环卫工和理发匠，他们都曾是 被看护的小孩，领养的，收容的或者从小流浪， 他们中的绝大部分成年以后 都害怕谈论到这些背景，因为这样做可能会 或多或少会黯淡他们的表面光鲜， 好似一片逆鳞，又仿佛是一颗定时炸弹