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be better off
look forward to （sth./doing sth.）
if only…
1.Nothing big —just something I could build up
2.I could read about other people‘s troubles for a change
3.As if there was a gap in the news. As if it was a jump ahead
4.The only thing is， she doesn‘t care if she’s alive or dead now my Dad‘s gone