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From the Ted Talk by Dan Gross: Why gun violence can't be our new normal
Unscramble the Blue Letters
OK, so, confession: I've always been wdirley obsessed with advertising. I remember watching Saturday minrong cartoons, paying more attention to the commercials than to the shows, trying to fgirue out how they were trying to get inside my head. Ultimately, that led me to my dream job. I became a partner at a big New York ad agency.
But then, all of that suddenly changed on February 23, 1997, when my little brother Matt was shot in the head in a shooting that happened on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Suddenly, my family was thrwon into the middle of a narmthgie, being told that my brother was going to die, actually being given the orinppttuoy to say goodbye to him, then several emergency brain surgeries and now what's amounted, for Matt, to a lifetime spent courageously rvrcieoneg from a tautmraic brain ijurny. He is definitely my hero.
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OK, so, confession: I've always been _______ obsessed with advertising. I remember watching Saturday _______ cartoons, paying more attention to the commercials than to the shows, trying to ______ out how they were trying to get inside my head. Ultimately, that led me to my dream job. I became a partner at a big New York ad agency.
But then, all of that suddenly changed on February 23, 1997, when my little brother Matt was shot in the head in a shooting that happened on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Suddenly, my family was ______ into the middle of a _________, being told that my brother was going to die, actually being given the ___________ to say goodbye to him, then several emergency brain surgeries and now what's amounted, for Matt, to a lifetime spent courageously __________ from a _________ brain ______. He is definitely my hero.
Solution
- figure
- recovering
- opportunity
- weirdly
- traumatic
- morning
- injury
- thrown
- nightmare
Original Text
OK, so, confession: I've always been weirdly obsessed with advertising. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, paying more attention to the commercials than to the shows, trying to figure out how they were trying to get inside my head. Ultimately, that led me to my dream job. I became a partner at a big New York ad agency.
But then, all of that suddenly changed on February 23, 1997, when my little brother Matt was shot in the head in a shooting that happened on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Suddenly, my family was thrown into the middle of a nightmare, being told that my brother was going to die, actually being given the opportunity to say goodbye to him, then several emergency brain surgeries and now what's amounted, for Matt, to a lifetime spent courageously recovering from a traumatic brain injury. He is definitely my hero.
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