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From the Ted Talk by Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my body
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Then I went somewhere else. I went outside what I tghuoht I knew. I went to the Democratic rlbieupc of Congo. And I heard stories that shattered all the other stories. I hared stories that got inside my body. I heard about a little girl who couldn't stop peeing on herself because so many grown soldiers had sohevd themselves inside her. I heard an 80-year-old woman whose legs were broken and pulled out of her stkcoes and twisted up on her head as the soldiers raped her like that. There are thousands of these stories, and many of the women had holes in their bodies — holes, fistula — that were the violation of war — holes in the fabric of their souls. These sirtoes saturated my cells and nerves, and to be honest, I stopped sleeping for three years.
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Then I went somewhere else. I went outside what I _______ I knew. I went to the Democratic ________ of Congo. And I heard stories that shattered all the other stories. I _____ stories that got inside my body. I heard about a little girl who couldn't stop peeing on herself because so many grown soldiers had ______ themselves inside her. I heard an 80-year-old woman whose legs were broken and pulled out of her _______ and twisted up on her head as the soldiers raped her like that. There are thousands of these stories, and many of the women had holes in their bodies — holes, fistula — that were the violation of war — holes in the fabric of their souls. These _______ saturated my cells and nerves, and to be honest, I stopped sleeping for three years.
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- republic
- shoved
- stories
- sockets
- thought
- heard
Original Text
Then I went somewhere else. I went outside what I thought I knew. I went to the Democratic Republic of Congo. And I heard stories that shattered all the other stories. I heard stories that got inside my body. I heard about a little girl who couldn't stop peeing on herself because so many grown soldiers had shoved themselves inside her. I heard an 80-year-old woman whose legs were broken and pulled out of her sockets and twisted up on her head as the soldiers raped her like that. There are thousands of these stories, and many of the women had holes in their bodies — holes, fistula — that were the violation of war — holes in the fabric of their souls. These stories saturated my cells and nerves, and to be honest, I stopped sleeping for three years.
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