When I was a kid, I thought I would grow up to be an actress. I thought I would live in New York City, in a high-rise apartment building, with my husband and family of, oh, five or six kids. I thought I'd live an urban, impossibly sophisticated1 life. Money would be no object. Perhaps there would be a private plane. (I should mention here that these fantasies were firmly rooted in the 1980's.) Well, I grew up and left the city for the country. I married and had one child -- an only child, just like I had been. My husband and I work hard to make ends meet. But my life - my rich, imperfect, complicated, contented2 life -- is the one I've built for myself. It's an honest life. It's a life of integrity3. It's a life I love. But to have it, I had to lose my fantasy straight out of the pages of a magazine of what it was that I thought I wanted - of who I thought I was. I was underselling myself, it turned out.
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1 sophisticated
adj.老练的，精密的，尖端的，高雅的
参考例句：
She has become very sophisticated since she went to live in London.移居伦敦后她变得世故多了。 This is a very sophisticated machine.这是一台非常精密的机器。
2 contented
adj.满意的，安心的，知足的
参考例句：
He won't be contented until he's upset everyone in the office.不把办公室里的每个人弄得心烦意乱他就不会满足。 The people are making a good living and are contented,each in his station.人民安居乐业。
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3 integrity
n.正直，诚实，诚恳，完整，完全，完善
参考例句：
The country is fighting to preserve its territorial integrity.该国在为保持领土的完整而进行斗争。 He is a man of the highest integrity.他是个极其正直的人。
4 emerges
v.出现( emerge的第三人称单数 )；露头；形成；事实
参考例句：
Language emerges and develops with the emergence and development of society. 语言是随着社会的产生而产生，随着社会的发展而发展的。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 The man emerges from water. 那个人露出水面。 来自《简明英汉词典》
