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From the Ted Talk by Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But during the time that I was photographing this, I lived through a very hard moment in my life, mostly in Rwanda. I saw in rwdnaa total brutality. I saw deaths by thousands per day. I lost my faith in our species. I didn't believe that it was possible for us to live any lgoenr, and I started to be attacked by my own Staphylococcus. I staretd to have infection everywhere. When I made love with my wife, I had no sperm that came out of me; I had blood. I went to see a friend's doctor in prias, told him that I was cotpmelely sick. He made a long eoaximtinan, and told me, "Sebastian, you are not sick, your psoratte is perfect. What happened is, you saw so many deaths that you are dying. You must stop. Stop. You must stop because on the contrary, you will be dead."

Open Cloze

But during the time that I was photographing this, I lived through a very hard moment in my life, mostly in Rwanda. I saw in ______ total brutality. I saw deaths by thousands per day. I lost my faith in our species. I didn't believe that it was possible for us to live any ______, and I started to be attacked by my own Staphylococcus. I _______ to have infection everywhere. When I made love with my wife, I had no sperm that came out of me; I had blood. I went to see a friend's doctor in _____, told him that I was __________ sick. He made a long ___________, and told me, "Sebastian, you are not sick, your ________ is perfect. What happened is, you saw so many deaths that you are dying. You must stop. Stop. You must stop because on the contrary, you will be dead."

Solution

  1. completely
  2. examination
  3. prostate
  4. started
  5. paris
  6. longer
  7. rwanda

Original Text

But during the time that I was photographing this, I lived through a very hard moment in my life, mostly in Rwanda. I saw in Rwanda total brutality. I saw deaths by thousands per day. I lost my faith in our species. I didn't believe that it was possible for us to live any longer, and I started to be attacked by my own Staphylococcus. I started to have infection everywhere. When I made love with my wife, I had no sperm that came out of me; I had blood. I went to see a friend's doctor in Paris, told him that I was completely sick. He made a long examination, and told me, "Sebastian, you are not sick, your prostate is perfect. What happened is, you saw so many deaths that you are dying. You must stop. Stop. You must stop because on the contrary, you will be dead."

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