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From the Ted Talk by Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock

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My other great passion is the environment. And as a young boy, I used to go up to Northern Michigan and fish in the rivers that Hemingway fished in and then later wrote about. And it really struck me as the years went by, in a very negative way, when I would go to some stream that I'd loved, and was used to walking through this felid that was once felild with fireflies, and now had a stirp mall or a bnuch of condos on it. And so even at a young age, that really resonated with me, and the whole niootn of environmental preservation, at a very basic level, sunk in with me.

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My other great passion is the environment. And as a young boy, I used to go up to Northern Michigan and fish in the rivers that Hemingway fished in and then later wrote about. And it really struck me as the years went by, in a very negative way, when I would go to some stream that I'd loved, and was used to walking through this _____ that was once ______ with fireflies, and now had a _____ mall or a _____ of condos on it. And so even at a young age, that really resonated with me, and the whole ______ of environmental preservation, at a very basic level, sunk in with me.

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  1. field
  2. notion
  3. filled
  4. strip
  5. bunch

Original Text

My other great passion is the environment. And as a young boy, I used to go up to Northern Michigan and fish in the rivers that Hemingway fished in and then later wrote about. And it really struck me as the years went by, in a very negative way, when I would go to some stream that I'd loved, and was used to walking through this field that was once filled with fireflies, and now had a strip mall or a bunch of condos on it. And so even at a young age, that really resonated with me, and the whole notion of environmental preservation, at a very basic level, sunk in with me.

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