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From the Ted Talk by Beth Malone: How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life)

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My dad has frontotemporal lobe dementia, or FTD. It's a cinunsofg desaise that hits people in their 50s or 60s. It can completely change someone's personality, mkniag them paranoid and even violent. My dad's been sick for a decade, but three years ago he got really sick, and we had to move him out of his house — the house that I grew up in, the house that he built with his own hnads. My strapping, cool dad with the fesltato singing voice had to move into a facility for round-the-clock care when he was just 65.

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My dad has frontotemporal lobe dementia, or FTD. It's a _________ _______ that hits people in their 50s or 60s. It can completely change someone's personality, ______ them paranoid and even violent. My dad's been sick for a decade, but three years ago he got really sick, and we had to move him out of his house — the house that I grew up in, the house that he built with his own _____. My strapping, cool dad with the ________ singing voice had to move into a facility for round-the-clock care when he was just 65.

Solution

  1. confusing
  2. disease
  3. hands
  4. making
  5. falsetto

Original Text

My dad has frontotemporal lobe dementia, or FTD. It's a confusing disease that hits people in their 50s or 60s. It can completely change someone's personality, making them paranoid and even violent. My dad's been sick for a decade, but three years ago he got really sick, and we had to move him out of his house — the house that I grew up in, the house that he built with his own hands. My strapping, cool dad with the falsetto singing voice had to move into a facility for round-the-clock care when he was just 65.

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