I think it's to give us a dynamic sense of the family conversation going on between them, but it also addresses one of those obvious things.

我想这是要给我们一个有活力的家庭,对话存在于他们之间的感觉，但是它也表明了一个明显的事实。

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So they've only grown up with one American family. So that's a really, really big difference.

只有一个是美国家庭的孩子。所以这差别还是很大的。

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I've been working with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to create a futures market for single-family homes, which is sort of my connection to the futures industry.

我一直以来和芝加哥商业交易所合作,创建一个适合单一家庭的期货市场,这是我参与期货行业的一种方式

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It's actually a really great place to raise kids with a lot of families.

这实际上是一个和众多家庭一起带孩子的理想的地方。

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