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From the Ted Talk by Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color

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I was born in a family full of colors. My fatehr is the son of a maid from whom he irteehnid an itnnese dark chocolate tone. He was adopted by those who I know as my grandparents. The matriarch, my grandma, has a porcelain skin and cotton-like hair. My grandpa was somewhere between a vanilla and srwartreby yuorgt tone, like my ulcne and my cousin. My mother is a cinnamon-skin dehugtar of a native Brazilian, with a pinch of hazel and honey, and a man [who is] a mix of coffee with milk, but with a lot of coffee. She has two sisters. One in a toasted-peanut skin and the other, also adopted, more on the beige side, like a pancake.

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I was born in a family full of colors. My ______ is the son of a maid from whom he _________ an _______ dark chocolate tone. He was adopted by those who I know as my grandparents. The matriarch, my grandma, has a porcelain skin and cotton-like hair. My grandpa was somewhere between a vanilla and __________ ______ tone, like my _____ and my cousin. My mother is a cinnamon-skin ________ of a native Brazilian, with a pinch of hazel and honey, and a man [who is] a mix of coffee with milk, but with a lot of coffee. She has two sisters. One in a toasted-peanut skin and the other, also adopted, more on the beige side, like a pancake.

Solution

  1. strawberry
  2. inherited
  3. uncle
  4. yogurt
  5. daughter
  6. intense
  7. father

Original Text

I was born in a family full of colors. My father is the son of a maid from whom he inherited an intense dark chocolate tone. He was adopted by those who I know as my grandparents. The matriarch, my grandma, has a porcelain skin and cotton-like hair. My grandpa was somewhere between a vanilla and strawberry yogurt tone, like my uncle and my cousin. My mother is a cinnamon-skin daughter of a native Brazilian, with a pinch of hazel and honey, and a man [who is] a mix of coffee with milk, but with a lot of coffee. She has two sisters. One in a toasted-peanut skin and the other, also adopted, more on the beige side, like a pancake.

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Important Words

  1. adopted
  2. beige
  3. born
  4. brazilian
  5. chocolate
  6. coffee
  7. colors
  8. cousin
  9. dark
  10. daughter
  11. family
  12. father
  13. full
  14. grandma
  15. grandpa
  16. grandparents
  17. hair
  18. hazel
  19. honey
  20. inherited
  21. intense
  22. lot
  23. maid
  24. man
  25. matriarch
  26. milk
  27. mix
  28. mother
  29. native
  30. pancake
  31. pinch
  32. porcelain
  33. side
  34. sisters
  35. skin
  36. son
  37. strawberry
  38. tone
  39. uncle
  40. vanilla
  41. yogurt