2006年的情人节，2月14日，Kate和妈妈在Daley广场见面，此时的她并不知道，马路的对面，Alex正凝望着她，多么想走近她……一阵刺耳的紧急刹车声，一场车祸就在眼前。而kate还不知道死在她怀里的这个男人正是Alex……

　　此时的Kate已经在芝加哥一家医院实习，但她是寂寞的。似乎每个人都是寂寞的，她母亲也是。母亲说：自从父亲逝去以后，对她来说，生活除了苦还是苦。但是她仍然保留了父亲生前最爱读的书，拿着这本书，好像父亲就在身边，翻开的还是那一页，读着的还是那段文字……

Kate：Sixty degrees on Valentine's Day. Can't be Chicago.

Kate's Mom：The TV says it's global warming. The icebergs¹ start melting, water covers the Earth. Thank God we won't live to see it.

Kate：What's this?

Kate's Mom：That's nothing. It's one of your father's.

Kate：Dostoyevsky?

Kate's Mom：Oh, yeah. It's about a guy who breaks the neck of a poor woman with an axe² and, so far, keeps wandering around regretting it. This is good.

Kate：Oh, yeah?

Kate's Mom：Yeah. Really good.

Kate's Mom：What are you thinking?

Kate：Nothing.

Kate's Mom：When your father passed away, it was hard. It still is hard. Holding his books, I feel like he's with me somehow knowing that he was once on the same pages, reading the same words.

passer-by：Oh, my God! Some body call an ambulance!

Kate：We need an ambulance at Daley Plaza³. A man has been struck by a bus. Get an EMT crew here. Sir--

passer-by：Get out the street. Get on the sidewalk. On the sidewalk. Off the street. Get on the sidewalk! Get on the sidewalk!

注释：

1. Valentine's Day：情人节

2. global warming：全球变暖

3. Dostoyevsky：俄国作家托斯陀耶夫斯基。这里提到的书是《罪与罚》。

4. axe：n. 斧子

5. pass away：去世。在口语里，常用这个词组表达。

6. ambulance：救护车

7. EMT：Emergency Medical Technician 急诊医生