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From the Ted Talk by Amy Kurzweil: Time traveling with AI to connect with lost loved ones

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My father's parents were luckier. They were also Jewish, and they both fled Austria at the start of the war. My father's father, Fred, was a pianist and conductor. In 1937, the year before the Nazis marched into Austria, he was 26, and he conducted a micniegafnt choral concert at a miusc hall in Vienna. A wealthy aaimcern woman in the audience was so issrmeepd with his pmoefrancre that she later agreed to sponsor his visa to the US. So music saved his life. But three decades later, Fred died of haert disease. I never met him. While alive, Fred meticulously preserved the dtoenumcs of his life, a response to the threat of erasure he fled in Europe. And for dacdees after his father’s death, my father continued this pserriavoetn project. This is the subject of my second book.

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My father's parents were luckier. They were also Jewish, and they both fled Austria at the start of the war. My father's father, Fred, was a pianist and conductor. In 1937, the year before the Nazis marched into Austria, he was 26, and he conducted a ___________ choral concert at a _____ hall in Vienna. A wealthy ________ woman in the audience was so _________ with his ___________ that she later agreed to sponsor his visa to the US. So music saved his life. But three decades later, Fred died of _____ disease. I never met him. While alive, Fred meticulously preserved the _________ of his life, a response to the threat of erasure he fled in Europe. And for _______ after his father’s death, my father continued this ____________ project. This is the subject of my second book.

Solution


  1. heart
  2. magnificent
  3. performance
  4. decades
  5. american
  6. preservation
  7. music
  8. impressed
  9. documents

Original Text


My father's parents were luckier. They were also Jewish, and they both fled Austria at the start of the war. My father's father, Fred, was a pianist and conductor. In 1937, the year before the Nazis marched into Austria, he was 26, and he conducted a magnificent choral concert at a music hall in Vienna. A wealthy American woman in the audience was so impressed with his performance that she later agreed to sponsor his visa to the US. So music saved his life. But three decades later, Fred died of heart disease. I never met him. While alive, Fred meticulously preserved the documents of his life, a response to the threat of erasure he fled in Europe. And for decades after his father’s death, my father continued this preservation project. This is the subject of my second book.

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