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From the Ted Talk by Kevin Breel: Confessions of a depressed comic

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Well, two yraes ago it was my problem, because I sat on the edge of my bed where I'd sat a million times before and I was suicidal. I was suicidal, and if you were to look at my life on the sarufce, you wouldn't see a kid who was suicidal. You'd see a kid who was the captain of his basketball team, the drama and theater student of the year, the English sntedut of the year, someone who was consistently on the honor roll and consistently at every ptary. So you would say I wasn't depressed, you would say I wasn't suicidal, but you would be wrong. You would be wrong. So I sat there that night beside a btotle of plils with a pen and paper in my hand and I thought about taking my own life and I came this close to doing it. I came this cosle to doing it.

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Well, two _____ ago it was my problem, because I sat on the edge of my bed where I'd sat a million times before and I was suicidal. I was suicidal, and if you were to look at my life on the _______, you wouldn't see a kid who was suicidal. You'd see a kid who was the captain of his basketball team, the drama and theater student of the year, the English _______ of the year, someone who was consistently on the honor roll and consistently at every _____. So you would say I wasn't depressed, you would say I wasn't suicidal, but you would be wrong. You would be wrong. So I sat there that night beside a ______ of _____ with a pen and paper in my hand and I thought about taking my own life and I came this close to doing it. I came this _____ to doing it.

Solution


  1. surface
  2. bottle
  3. party
  4. pills
  5. years
  6. close
  7. student

Original Text


Well, two years ago it was my problem, because I sat on the edge of my bed where I'd sat a million times before and I was suicidal. I was suicidal, and if you were to look at my life on the surface, you wouldn't see a kid who was suicidal. You'd see a kid who was the captain of his basketball team, the drama and theater student of the year, the English student of the year, someone who was consistently on the honor roll and consistently at every party. So you would say I wasn't depressed, you would say I wasn't suicidal, but you would be wrong. You would be wrong. So I sat there that night beside a bottle of pills with a pen and paper in my hand and I thought about taking my own life and I came this close to doing it. I came this close to doing it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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real depression 2
massive problem 2
single day 2
tough time 2
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Important Words


  1. basketball
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  3. bottle
  4. captain
  5. close
  6. consistently
  7. depressed
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  12. honor
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  17. paper
  18. party
  19. pen
  20. pills
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  22. roll
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  24. student
  25. suicidal
  26. surface
  27. team
  28. theater
  29. thought
  30. times
  31. wrong
  32. year
  33. years