{译介} ON SEEING THE 100% PERFECT GIRL ONE BEAUTIFUL APRIL MORNING(5)

我们在花店的门前经过。一团小而温暖的气体接触
我的皮肤
。潮湿的沥青，玫瑰花的香气。我没有勇气上去和她说话。她穿着一件白色的毛衣，右手拿着一个白色硬质信封，上面只缺了一张邮票。所以：她给某人写了一封信，也许整晚都在写作，从她眼中的昏昏沉沉的表情来判断。信封里可能包含了她曾经拥有的每一个秘密。
I take a few more strides and turn: She’s lost in the crowd. 
我又走了几步然后转过身来：她已经在
人群中
消失
。
Now, of course, I know exactly what I should have said to her. It would have been a long speech, though, far too long for me to have delivered it properly. The ideas I come up with are never very practical. 
当然，现在，我无比清楚我当时应该对她说什么。不过，这本来是一个很长的演讲，对我来说，讲它的时间太长了。我提出的想法从来都不是很实用。
Oh, well. It would have started “Once upon a time” and ended “A sad story, don’t you think?” 
那好吧。这个故事应该由“从前” 开始以“一个悲伤的故事，你觉得呢？”结束。
Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. They were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened. 
从前，有一个男孩和一个女孩。这个男孩十八岁，女孩十六岁。他不是很帅，也不是特别漂亮。和其他人一样，他们只是一个普通的孤独男孩和一个普通的孤独女孩。但是他们全心全意地相信，世界上的某个地方生活着他们的100％完美的男孩和100％完美的女孩。是的，他们相信奇迹。而这个奇迹确确实实地发生了。