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From the Ted Talk by Sara Jones: My story of love and loss as a transracial adoptee

Unscramble the Blue Letters


My pntears would say things to me like, "I fell in love with you the first time I saw your photo. My heart bkroe." They love me, I know that, and I was wanted. But I wish that the only birth sroty I had wasn't so sad, so humanitarian. I would often confuse love with gratitude, especially when other people would say things to me like, "You're so lucky to be adopted to America," or, "Your parents are such angels to aodpt you." To a child, it felt like these cmomntes were constant reminders to be gaeruftl to my parents' charity. I resented that I couldn't tell these adults, "I don't like being reminded all the time that I'm adopted. I just want to be a normal kid, and maybe even be ungrateful once in a while."

Open Cloze


My _______ would say things to me like, "I fell in love with you the first time I saw your photo. My heart _____." They love me, I know that, and I was wanted. But I wish that the only birth _____ I had wasn't so sad, so humanitarian. I would often confuse love with gratitude, especially when other people would say things to me like, "You're so lucky to be adopted to America," or, "Your parents are such angels to _____ you." To a child, it felt like these ________ were constant reminders to be ________ to my parents' charity. I resented that I couldn't tell these adults, "I don't like being reminded all the time that I'm adopted. I just want to be a normal kid, and maybe even be ungrateful once in a while."

Solution


  1. parents
  2. grateful
  3. adopt
  4. comments
  5. broke
  6. story

Original Text


My parents would say things to me like, "I fell in love with you the first time I saw your photo. My heart broke." They love me, I know that, and I was wanted. But I wish that the only birth story I had wasn't so sad, so humanitarian. I would often confuse love with gratitude, especially when other people would say things to me like, "You're so lucky to be adopted to America," or, "Your parents are such angels to adopt you." To a child, it felt like these comments were constant reminders to be grateful to my parents' charity. I resented that I couldn't tell these adults, "I don't like being reminded all the time that I'm adopted. I just want to be a normal kid, and maybe even be ungrateful once in a while."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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adoptive parents 4
birth families 4
adoption records 3
transracial adoption 3
korean adoptees 3
transracially adopted 2
birth family 2
tattoo meant 2
children experience 2
children welfare 2
adoption story 2
complex emotions 2
safe emotional 2
emotional spaces 2
emotional oxygen 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
safe emotional spaces 2

Important Words


  1. adopt
  2. adopted
  3. adults
  4. america
  5. angels
  6. birth
  7. broke
  8. charity
  9. child
  10. comments
  11. confuse
  12. constant
  13. fell
  14. felt
  15. grateful
  16. gratitude
  17. heart
  18. humanitarian
  19. kid
  20. love
  21. lucky
  22. normal
  23. parents
  24. people
  25. photo
  26. reminded
  27. reminders
  28. resented
  29. sad
  30. story
  31. time
  32. ungrateful
  33. wanted