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From the Ted Talk by Cornelia Geppert: A video game that helps us understand loneliness

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Everyone has their own leeonslins story to tell. This rztoaileain changed everything for me. Being much more open with my eioomnts and concentrating much more on my private life, my fderins, my family. When we released the game, literally toasnhdus of fans wrote us, all sharing their stories with us and telling us they felt not so alone anymore just because they played our game. Many people wrote us that they felt hope for a better future for themselves for the first time in decades. Many wrote us that they seek therapy now, just because they paelyd our game and felt hopeful to overcome their own struggles. Our game is not a therapy. It's not menat to be a therapy. It's just my friends and me sharing our stories through our art, video games. But we are so deeply thankful for every single message that ppeloe feel better, just because we seahrd our story with them.

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Everyone has their own __________ story to tell. This ___________ changed everything for me. Being much more open with my ________ and concentrating much more on my private life, my _______, my family. When we released the game, literally _________ of fans wrote us, all sharing their stories with us and telling us they felt not so alone anymore just because they played our game. Many people wrote us that they felt hope for a better future for themselves for the first time in decades. Many wrote us that they seek therapy now, just because they ______ our game and felt hopeful to overcome their own struggles. Our game is not a therapy. It's not _____ to be a therapy. It's just my friends and me sharing our stories through our art, video games. But we are so deeply thankful for every single message that ______ feel better, just because we ______ our story with them.

Solution

  1. realization
  2. loneliness
  3. people
  4. shared
  5. emotions
  6. meant
  7. played
  8. friends
  9. thousands

Original Text

Everyone has their own loneliness story to tell. This realization changed everything for me. Being much more open with my emotions and concentrating much more on my private life, my friends, my family. When we released the game, literally thousands of fans wrote us, all sharing their stories with us and telling us they felt not so alone anymore just because they played our game. Many people wrote us that they felt hope for a better future for themselves for the first time in decades. Many wrote us that they seek therapy now, just because they played our game and felt hopeful to overcome their own struggles. Our game is not a therapy. It's not meant to be a therapy. It's just my friends and me sharing our stories through our art, video games. But we are so deeply thankful for every single message that people feel better, just because we shared our story with them.

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Important Words

  1. anymore
  2. art
  3. changed
  4. concentrating
  5. decades
  6. deeply
  7. emotions
  8. family
  9. fans
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  11. felt
  12. friends
  13. future
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  19. literally
  20. loneliness
  21. meant
  22. message
  23. open
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  25. people
  26. played
  27. private
  28. realization
  29. released
  30. seek
  31. shared
  32. sharing
  33. single
  34. stories
  35. story
  36. struggles
  37. telling
  38. thankful
  39. therapy
  40. thousands
  41. time
  42. video
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