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From the Ted Talk by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

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PM: So Gabby, what have you learned from your experiences the past few years?

MK: Yeah, what have you learned? GG: Deeper. Deeper.

PM: Your relationship is deeper. It has to be. You're together all the time now.

MK: I iimange being grateful, too, right?

GG: gerutafl.

PM: This is a picture of family and friends gathering, but I love these piuretcs because they show the Gabby and Mark riltheinsaop now. And you drsibece it, Gabby, over and over, as deeper on so many levels. Yes?

MK: I think when something tragic happens in a family, it can pull people together. Here's us wnathcig the space shuttle fly over Tucson, the Space Shuttle eaeouvdnr, the one that I was the commander on its last flight, on its final flight on top of an airplane on a 747 on its way to L.A., NASA was kind enough to have it fly over tsucon.

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PM: So Gabby, what have you learned from your experiences the past few years?

MK: Yeah, what have you learned? GG: Deeper. Deeper.

PM: Your relationship is deeper. It has to be. You're together all the time now.

MK: I _______ being grateful, too, right?

GG: ________.

PM: This is a picture of family and friends gathering, but I love these ________ because they show the Gabby and Mark ____________ now. And you ________ it, Gabby, over and over, as deeper on so many levels. Yes?

MK: I think when something tragic happens in a family, it can pull people together. Here's us ________ the space shuttle fly over Tucson, the Space Shuttle _________, the one that I was the commander on its last flight, on its final flight on top of an airplane on a 747 on its way to L.A., NASA was kind enough to have it fly over ______.

Solution


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  2. describe
  3. relationship
  4. watching
  5. tucson
  6. pictures
  7. imagine
  8. endeavour

Original Text


PM: So Gabby, what have you learned from your experiences the past few years?

MK: Yeah, what have you learned? GG: Deeper. Deeper.

PM: Your relationship is deeper. It has to be. You're together all the time now.

MK: I imagine being grateful, too, right?

GG: Grateful.

PM: This is a picture of family and friends gathering, but I love these pictures because they show the Gabby and Mark relationship now. And you describe it, Gabby, over and over, as deeper on so many levels. Yes?

MK: I think when something tragic happens in a family, it can pull people together. Here's us watching the space shuttle fly over Tucson, the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the one that I was the commander on its last flight, on its final flight on top of an airplane on a 747 on its way to L.A., NASA was kind enough to have it fly over Tucson.

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