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From the Ted Talk by Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
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From a distance, Mark samtorn was always the spark of praties, always making girls feel pttrey. Always working, no matter what drgus or fights he'd had the night before. But he'd always wrestled with demons. He entered the wlrod through the three gateways that doom so many young armeaicn men: bad parents, bad schools, bad prisons. His mother told him, regretfully, as a boy that she'd been just 50 dollars short of aborting him. Sometimes, that little boy would be at school, he'd suddenly pull a knife on his fellow classmates. Sometimes that same little boy would be at his grandparents', tenderly feiedng horses. He was getting arrested before he shaved, first juvenile, then proisn. He became a casual white supremacist and, like so many around him, a drug-addled and absent father. And then, before long, he found himself on dteah row, for in his 2001 counter-jihad, he had shot not one mini-mart clerk, but three. Only Raisuddin survived.
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From a distance, Mark _______ was always the spark of _______, always making girls feel ______. Always working, no matter what _____ or fights he'd had the night before. But he'd always wrestled with demons. He entered the _____ through the three gateways that doom so many young ________ men: bad parents, bad schools, bad prisons. His mother told him, regretfully, as a boy that she'd been just 50 dollars short of aborting him. Sometimes, that little boy would be at school, he'd suddenly pull a knife on his fellow classmates. Sometimes that same little boy would be at his grandparents', tenderly _______ horses. He was getting arrested before he shaved, first juvenile, then ______. He became a casual white supremacist and, like so many around him, a drug-addled and absent father. And then, before long, he found himself on _____ row, for in his 2001 counter-jihad, he had shot not one mini-mart clerk, but three. Only Raisuddin survived.
Solution
- prison
- stroman
- feeding
- drugs
- death
- parties
- american
- pretty
- world
Original Text
From a distance, Mark Stroman was always the spark of parties, always making girls feel pretty. Always working, no matter what drugs or fights he'd had the night before. But he'd always wrestled with demons. He entered the world through the three gateways that doom so many young American men: bad parents, bad schools, bad prisons. His mother told him, regretfully, as a boy that she'd been just 50 dollars short of aborting him. Sometimes, that little boy would be at school, he'd suddenly pull a knife on his fellow classmates. Sometimes that same little boy would be at his grandparents', tenderly feeding horses. He was getting arrested before he shaved, first juvenile, then prison. He became a casual white supremacist and, like so many around him, a drug-addled and absent father. And then, before long, he found himself on death row, for in his 2001 counter-jihad, he had shot not one mini-mart clerk, but three. Only Raisuddin survived.
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