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From the Ted Talk by Jok Church: A circle of caring

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You know, what I do is write for children, and I'm probably America's most widely read children's ahtour, in fact. And I always tell people that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist. You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers, and no one has ever chose farmer. I'm here today to talk to you about circles and epiphanies. And you know, an enhippay is usually something you find that you dropped someplace. You've just got to go around the block to see it as an epiphany.

That's a painting of a circle. A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke. It's the kind of cpoaclmetid circle that I'm going to tell you about. My cclrie began back in the '60s in high school in Stow, Ohio where I was the clsas queer. I was the guy beaten up bldooy every week in the boys' room, until one teacher saved my life. She saved my life by letting me go to the bthooarm in the teachers' lgoune. She did it in secret. She did it for three years. And I had to get out of town. I had a thumb, I had 85 drlaols, and I ended up in San Francisco, cflniaoira -- met a lover -- and back in the '80s, found it necessary to begin work on AIDS organizations.

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You know, what I do is write for children, and I'm probably America's most widely read children's ______, in fact. And I always tell people that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist. You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers, and no one has ever chose farmer. I'm here today to talk to you about circles and epiphanies. And you know, an ________ is usually something you find that you dropped someplace. You've just got to go around the block to see it as an epiphany.

That's a painting of a circle. A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke. It's the kind of ___________ circle that I'm going to tell you about. My ______ began back in the '60s in high school in Stow, Ohio where I was the _____ queer. I was the guy beaten up ______ every week in the boys' room, until one teacher saved my life. She saved my life by letting me go to the ________ in the teachers' ______. She did it in secret. She did it for three years. And I had to get out of town. I had a thumb, I had 85 _______, and I ended up in San Francisco, __________ -- met a lover -- and back in the '80s, found it necessary to begin work on AIDS organizations.

Solution


  1. complicated
  2. bathroom
  3. lounge
  4. california
  5. bloody
  6. class
  7. circle
  8. dollars
  9. author
  10. epiphany

Original Text


You know, what I do is write for children, and I'm probably America's most widely read children's author, in fact. And I always tell people that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist. You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers, and no one has ever chose farmer. I'm here today to talk to you about circles and epiphanies. And you know, an epiphany is usually something you find that you dropped someplace. You've just got to go around the block to see it as an epiphany.

That's a painting of a circle. A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke. It's the kind of complicated circle that I'm going to tell you about. My circle began back in the '60s in high school in Stow, Ohio where I was the class queer. I was the guy beaten up bloody every week in the boys' room, until one teacher saved my life. She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom in the teachers' lounge. She did it in secret. She did it for three years. And I had to get out of town. I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars, and I ended up in San Francisco, California -- met a lover -- and back in the '80s, found it necessary to begin work on AIDS organizations.

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