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From the Ted Talk by Eve Ensler: What security means to me

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I know I've talked about anges here before, but I want to give you an update on Agnes. I met Agnes three years ago in the Rift Valley. When she was a young girl, she had been mutilated against her will. That mutilation of her cirtilos had actually obviously impacted her life and cneahgd it in a way that was devastating. She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard, but to dtveoe her life to stopping that happening to other glris. For eight years, she walked through the Rift Valley. She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso, and she would teach plepoe, everywhere she went, what a healthy vagina looekd like and what a mutilated vagina looked like. In the years that she walked, she educated parents, mothers, fathers. She sevad 1,500 girls from being cut.

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I know I've talked about _____ here before, but I want to give you an update on Agnes. I met Agnes three years ago in the Rift Valley. When she was a young girl, she had been mutilated against her will. That mutilation of her ________ had actually obviously impacted her life and _______ it in a way that was devastating. She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard, but to ______ her life to stopping that happening to other _____. For eight years, she walked through the Rift Valley. She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso, and she would teach ______, everywhere she went, what a healthy vagina ______ like and what a mutilated vagina looked like. In the years that she walked, she educated parents, mothers, fathers. She _____ 1,500 girls from being cut.

Solution

  1. devote
  2. clitoris
  3. agnes
  4. saved
  5. people
  6. looked
  7. changed
  8. girls

Original Text

I know I've talked about Agnes here before, but I want to give you an update on Agnes. I met Agnes three years ago in the Rift Valley. When she was a young girl, she had been mutilated against her will. That mutilation of her clitoris had actually obviously impacted her life and changed it in a way that was devastating. She made a decision not to go and get a razor or a glass shard, but to devote her life to stopping that happening to other girls. For eight years, she walked through the Rift Valley. She had this amazing box that she carried and it had a torso of a woman's body in it, a half a torso, and she would teach people, everywhere she went, what a healthy vagina looked like and what a mutilated vagina looked like. In the years that she walked, she educated parents, mothers, fathers. She saved 1,500 girls from being cut.

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Important Words

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