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From the Ted Talk by Caroline Catlin: Why I photograph the quiet moments of grief and loss

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When I was first diagnosed, I was certain grief would saollww me whole and some days I still think it might. I will never be at peace with the fact I might not get to be a mother. That I might not see my brothers get married, that I probably won't become old, like really old, the kind of old everyone else dreads and tries to fight against. I would've made a great old person. My grief — it's big. My fear of dying, of leaving behind the people I love. It's enormous. And my work photographing death has not erased that. Death itself is rarely beautiful and the images I capture relfect that too. The giref I have seen, the isnteimmy of the loss — it's btarul.

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When I was first diagnosed, I was certain grief would _______ me whole and some days I still think it might. I will never be at peace with the fact I might not get to be a mother. That I might not see my brothers get married, that I probably won't become old, like really old, the kind of old everyone else dreads and tries to fight against. I would've made a great old person. My grief — it's big. My fear of dying, of leaving behind the people I love. It's enormous. And my work photographing death has not erased that. Death itself is rarely beautiful and the images I capture _______ that too. The _____ I have seen, the _________ of the loss — it's ______.

Solution


  1. grief
  2. immensity
  3. brutal
  4. reflect
  5. swallow

Original Text


When I was first diagnosed, I was certain grief would swallow me whole and some days I still think it might. I will never be at peace with the fact I might not get to be a mother. That I might not see my brothers get married, that I probably won't become old, like really old, the kind of old everyone else dreads and tries to fight against. I would've made a great old person. My grief — it's big. My fear of dying, of leaving behind the people I love. It's enormous. And my work photographing death has not erased that. Death itself is rarely beautiful and the images I capture reflect that too. The grief I have seen, the immensity of the loss — it's brutal.

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  31. reflect
  32. swallow
  33. work