tim richer and his wife ,linda,had taught for over 30 years near buffalo , new york
蒂姆 里切尔和他的妻子琳达已经在纽约的水牛城教书教了30多年。
--he in computers , she in special education 。
他教电脑，妻子教特殊教育。
he learned he would need a quadruple bypass operation 。
他得知自己可能需要四重分流手术。
it was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose。
这种手术通常不由得让人思考生命的意义。
a program started by Dolly parton's foundtion that mailed a book every ,month to children from birth to age five in the country music singer's home country of sevier, tennessee。
多莉 帕顿基金展开的一项活动，即给田纳西歌手sevier的家乡里的5岁以下的小孩每个月邮寄一本书。
