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From the Ted Talk by Sonia Vallabh: My quest to cure prion disease — before it's too late

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I'm walking alongside these kids on their own journeys as best I can. And you know how it is with kids. Sometimes the shpae of the future begs to be assumed. X number of years until Y. This parade of milestones. This storyboard. But here again is a luxury not all of us have. And perhaps, in ways large and small, it's a luruxy none of us have.

What would it mean to do all of this less narratively? What if our lievs, our lives together, are best lived not as prose, but as poetry? I'm still living into this question, but I'm glad to have it with me.

fokls, thank you and wish us luck. We need it.

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I'm walking alongside these kids on their own journeys as best I can. And you know how it is with kids. Sometimes the _____ of the future begs to be assumed. X number of years until Y. This parade of milestones. This storyboard. But here again is a luxury not all of us have. And perhaps, in ways large and small, it's a ______ none of us have.

What would it mean to do all of this less narratively? What if our _____, our lives together, are best lived not as prose, but as poetry? I'm still living into this question, but I'm glad to have it with me.

_____, thank you and wish us luck. We need it.

Solution


  1. lives
  2. shape
  3. luxury
  4. folks

Original Text


I'm walking alongside these kids on their own journeys as best I can. And you know how it is with kids. Sometimes the shape of the future begs to be assumed. X number of years until Y. This parade of milestones. This storyboard. But here again is a luxury not all of us have. And perhaps, in ways large and small, it's a luxury none of us have.

What would it mean to do all of this less narratively? What if our lives, our lives together, are best lived not as prose, but as poetry? I'm still living into this question, but I'm glad to have it with me.

Folks, thank you and wish us luck. We need it.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
prion disease 8
moment number 2
genetic prion 2
bad card 2
avoid passing 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
genetic prion disease 2

Important Words


  1. assumed
  2. begs
  3. folks
  4. future
  5. glad
  6. journeys
  7. kids
  8. large
  9. lived
  10. lives
  11. living
  12. luck
  13. luxury
  14. milestones
  15. narratively
  16. number
  17. parade
  18. poetry
  19. prose
  20. question
  21. shape
  22. small
  23. storyboard
  24. walking
  25. ways
  26. years