Stanford is near to my heart, not least because I lived just a mile and a half from here. Of course, if my accent hasn't given it away, for the first part of my life, I had to admire this place from a distance. I went to school on the other side of the country at Auburn University, in the heart of landlocked eastern Alabama. You may not know this, but I was on the sailing team all four years.
It wasn't easy. Back then, the closest marina was a three-hour drive. For practice, most of the time, we had to wait for a heavy rainstorm暴风雨 to flood淹没 the football field. And tying knots is hard. Who knew? Yet somehow由于某种原因, against all odds, we managed to beat(beat) 打败 Stanford every time.
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