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From the Ted Talk by Casey Gerald: Embrace your raw, strange magic
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I'm not saying she was perfect, just that I sure bietenefd from her ieetmfipcrons. And maybe that's what magic is, after all: a useful mistake. So when she began to dseppiaar for days at a time, I turned to some magic of my own. It srcutk me, as from above, that I could conjure up my mother just by walking plrcetefy from my elementary school at the top of a steep hill all the way down to my grandmother's house, placing one foot, and one foot only, in each sidewalk square. I couldn't let any part of any foot touch the line between the square, I couldn't skip a square, all the way to the last square at the last blade of grass that separated our lawn from our driveway. And I bullshit you not, it wkroed — just once though.
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I'm not saying she was perfect, just that I sure _________ from her _____________. And maybe that's what magic is, after all: a useful mistake. So when she began to _________ for days at a time, I turned to some magic of my own. It ______ me, as from above, that I could conjure up my mother just by walking _________ from my elementary school at the top of a steep hill all the way down to my grandmother's house, placing one foot, and one foot only, in each sidewalk square. I couldn't let any part of any foot touch the line between the square, I couldn't skip a square, all the way to the last square at the last blade of grass that separated our lawn from our driveway. And I bullshit you not, it ______ — just once though.
Solution
- benefited
- perfectly
- worked
- disappear
- imperfections
- struck
Original Text
I'm not saying she was perfect, just that I sure benefited from her imperfections. And maybe that's what magic is, after all: a useful mistake. So when she began to disappear for days at a time, I turned to some magic of my own. It struck me, as from above, that I could conjure up my mother just by walking perfectly from my elementary school at the top of a steep hill all the way down to my grandmother's house, placing one foot, and one foot only, in each sidewalk square. I couldn't let any part of any foot touch the line between the square, I couldn't skip a square, all the way to the last square at the last blade of grass that separated our lawn from our driveway. And I bullshit you not, it worked — just once though.
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