This is a true story of how friendships run deeper than blood.This is my story of the only three friends in my life that have truly mattered. Two of them were killers¹ that never made it past the age of 30.The other is a non- practicing attorney, living within the pain of his past, too afraid to let it go, finding reassurance² instead of confronting its horror. I was the only one that could speak for them, and for the children we were.

这段往事说的是血浓于水的友情，我一生中的三名生死之交。其中两个是杀手，活不过30岁，另一个是不执业的律师，无法摆脱过去的痛苦、恐惧。把我们的经历细说从头，惟有我了。 平淡的语气娓娓道来，好似向我们讲述一段平凡的往事，哪知却满含如此的辛酸。

Lorenzo: Michael was the most sexually experienced of us ,which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions.

勒伦佐：迈克尔是我们当中最风流的一个，也就是说，他曾吻过女孩子。 有过甜蜜的过往，有过年轻的冲动，残酷的噩梦抹煞了所有的一切。

The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.

改变我们一生的那天，气温98度，热得厉害。 人的一生总有几个难忘的日子，是什么让你对它分外的刻骨铭心?