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From the Ted Talk by Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos

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Now, it was emotional and it was inspiring, and I've always haerd about thinking outside the box, but it wasn't until I had actually gotten outside of my box that something happened. As I lekood through the photos, there were some were over a hundred years old, some still in the envelope from the processing lab, I couldn't help but think as a retoucher that I could fix that tear and mend that scratch, and I knew hundreds of people who could do the same. So that eeinvng, I just reached out on Facebook and asekd a few of them, and by morning the reonspse had been so overwhelming and so positive, I knew we had to give it a go. So we started retouching photos.

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Now, it was emotional and it was inspiring, and I've always _____ about thinking outside the box, but it wasn't until I had actually gotten outside of my box that something happened. As I ______ through the photos, there were some were over a hundred years old, some still in the envelope from the processing lab, I couldn't help but think as a retoucher that I could fix that tear and mend that scratch, and I knew hundreds of people who could do the same. So that _______, I just reached out on Facebook and _____ a few of them, and by morning the ________ had been so overwhelming and so positive, I knew we had to give it a go. So we started retouching photos.

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  1. response
  2. looked
  3. evening
  4. heard
  5. asked

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Now, it was emotional and it was inspiring, and I've always heard about thinking outside the box, but it wasn't until I had actually gotten outside of my box that something happened. As I looked through the photos, there were some were over a hundred years old, some still in the envelope from the processing lab, I couldn't help but think as a retoucher that I could fix that tear and mend that scratch, and I knew hundreds of people who could do the same. So that evening, I just reached out on Facebook and asked a few of them, and by morning the response had been so overwhelming and so positive, I knew we had to give it a go. So we started retouching photos.

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