They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

除了那个又小又老的女人有一个鞋盒在她的壁橱上面之外他们彼此之间已经没有秘密， 她警告她的丈夫不要试图打开或询问她。

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Back in the Philippines, Corpuz's 16-year-old son, Lance, and his brother Virgil, 13, open the box their father sent home.

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Perhaps, just like the Provisionals' old twin track armalite and ballot box strategy, society has to keep its options open.

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