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From the Ted Talk by Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So the week before the aclrite came out, I was very nervous. I had been wrikong on a book about love stories for the past few years, so I had gotten used to wtiinrg about my own experiences with rmoaitnc love on my blog. But a blog post might get a couple hundred views at the most, and those were usually just my Facebook friends, and I figured my article in the New York temis would probably get a few thousand views. And that felt like a lot of attention on a relatively new relationship. But as it turned out, I had no idea.

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So the week before the _______ came out, I was very nervous. I had been _______ on a book about love stories for the past few years, so I had gotten used to _______ about my own experiences with ________ love on my blog. But a blog post might get a couple hundred views at the most, and those were usually just my Facebook friends, and I figured my article in the New York _____ would probably get a few thousand views. And that felt like a lot of attention on a relatively new relationship. But as it turned out, I had no idea.

Solution

  1. romantic
  2. times
  3. working
  4. article
  5. writing

Original Text

So the week before the article came out, I was very nervous. I had been working on a book about love stories for the past few years, so I had gotten used to writing about my own experiences with romantic love on my blog. But a blog post might get a couple hundred views at the most, and those were usually just my Facebook friends, and I figured my article in the New York Times would probably get a few thousand views. And that felt like a lot of attention on a relatively new relationship. But as it turned out, I had no idea.

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Important Words

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