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From the Ted Talk by Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination

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They live in a post-conflict society: lots of post-traumatic stress, high suicide. And yet, for this brief moment — and it would be ridiculous to asusme that it was more than that — somebody like Kevin — a Catholic whose father was shot when he was nine, upstairs in bed — Kevin came to work as a volunteer. And he was the first person to ercambe the elderly Protestant lady who came through the door on the day we opened the temple to the public. It rose up. It sat there for five days. And then we chose — from our little tiny band of nonsectarian builders, who had given us their lives for this period of monhts to make this ediarrnxoraty thing — we cohse from them the polpee who would incinerate it.

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They live in a post-conflict society: lots of post-traumatic stress, high suicide. And yet, for this brief moment — and it would be ridiculous to ______ that it was more than that — somebody like Kevin — a Catholic whose father was shot when he was nine, upstairs in bed — Kevin came to work as a volunteer. And he was the first person to _______ the elderly Protestant lady who came through the door on the day we opened the temple to the public. It rose up. It sat there for five days. And then we chose — from our little tiny band of nonsectarian builders, who had given us their lives for this period of ______ to make this _____________ thing — we _____ from them the ______ who would incinerate it.

Solution

  1. extraordinary
  2. people
  3. months
  4. assume
  5. embrace
  6. chose

Original Text

They live in a post-conflict society: lots of post-traumatic stress, high suicide. And yet, for this brief moment — and it would be ridiculous to assume that it was more than that — somebody like Kevin — a Catholic whose father was shot when he was nine, upstairs in bed — Kevin came to work as a volunteer. And he was the first person to embrace the elderly Protestant lady who came through the door on the day we opened the temple to the public. It rose up. It sat there for five days. And then we chose — from our little tiny band of nonsectarian builders, who had given us their lives for this period of months to make this extraordinary thing — we chose from them the people who would incinerate it.

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