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This is the first letter that I wrote back home to Momma and Daddy a few days after I'd moved to Nashville: 这是我写回家妈妈和爸爸了几天后，我已经搬到了纳什维尔的首字母：

   

June 2, 1964 1964年6月2日

Nashville, Tennessee 田纳西州纳什维尔

   

Dear Momma and Daddy, 亲爱的妈妈和爸爸，

   

I hope this letter finds everybody well and happy. As for me, I'm fine I guess. I'm just a little lonesome and a whole lot homesick. I got to Nashville okay and I thought I'd better write and let you know cause I knew you'd be worried about me and I don't want you to be worried about me cause I'm gonna be alright once I get settled and used to being away from home. I didn't realize how much I loved you and all them noisy kids until I left and I didn't realize how hard it was to leave home either til I started to leave and everybody started crying, including me. I cried almost all the way to Nashville and I wanted to turn around a few times and come back but you know how bad I've always wanted to go to Nashville and be a singer and songwriter and I believe that if I try long enough and hard enough that someday I'll make it. Don't worry about trying to sending me any money or anything cause I've got a job singing on the early morning television show here called the Eddie Hill Show. A couple of folks already told me that they might record a couple of my songs so I'll be making enough money to get by and I don't want you worrying about me being hungry or anything. Nashville is not exactly what I thought it was gonna be, but I believe I'm gonna like it here once I get used to it. And I don't want you worrying about me getting in trouble either cause I'll be good just like I promised you I would when I left. Well, can't think of anything else to say. I guess I'd better close for now. You write me real soon. Tell everybody I said hello and I'm gonna be real anxious to hear from you cause I sure miss you and I love you an awful lot. 我希望这封信大家好，愉快。至于我，我没事，我猜。我只是有点寂寞和很多想家。我到纳什维尔没关系，我想我最好还是写，让你知道，因为我知道你会担心我，我不希望你因为我不会有事的，一旦我得到解决是担心我而习惯了离家出走。我不知道我有多么爱你，所有的人吵的孩子，直到我离开，我不知道这是多么艰难离开家或者直到我开始​​离开，每个人都开始哭了，包括我在内。我哭了，几乎一路纳什维尔，我想转身了几次，回来，但你知道如何糟糕，我一直很想去纳什维尔，并成为一名歌手和歌曲作者，我相信，如果我尝试足够长的时间，并够硬，有一天我会做到这一点。不要担心想送我任何金钱或任何东西，因为我找到了一份工作唱歌清晨的电视节目在这里叫埃迪山秀。有几个人已经告诉我，他们可能记录了几个我的歌，所以我会做足够的钱度日，我不想让你担心我是饿了还是什么。纳什维尔不正是我认为这是要去的，但我相信我会喜欢这里，一旦我习惯了它。我不想让你担心我惹上麻烦或者因为我会好，就像我答应你，我会当我离开。好了，想不出什么别的话来。我想我最好还是接近现在。你写我真正很快。告诉大家，我说你好，我要成为真正的急收到你的来信，因为我肯定会想念你，我爱你非常多。

   

With love as always, 有了爱一如既往，

   

-Dolly -Dolly