My daughter, husband and I hugged each other in the middle of our empty sitting room. The four-storey Georgian terrace in an Islington garden square had been our home for 30 years. Here, our eldest had taken her first baby steps. Here, we had nursed our son through terrible illness to miraculous cure. But now we were leaving it forever — to downsize.
我女儿、丈夫和我在空荡的起居室中央紧紧相拥。位于伊斯灵顿花园广场的一栋四层乔治王朝式连排房，陪伴了我们整整30年。就在这里，长女迈出了人生第一步；也在这里，我们把儿子从可怕的病痛护理到奇迹般痊愈。而如今，我们却要永别于此——为了缩小居所。
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