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From the Ted Talk by Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other

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As my sister and I were walking to the laundromat, a crowd stopped in front of us. Two girls out of nowhere attacked my sister. Still cuoensfd about what was happening, I tried to pull one girl away, and just as I did, I felt something brush across my face. With my adrenaline rushing, I didn't realize a man had leaped out of the crowd and cut me. As I felt warm bolod ooze down my face, and watching him raise his knife toward me again, I turned to defned myself and pulled that gun from my wbisatand and sezeueqd the trigger. Thankfully, he didn't lose his life that day. My hndas sahnkig and heart racing, I was pzaleayrd in fear. From that moment, I felt regret that would never leave me.

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As my sister and I were walking to the laundromat, a crowd stopped in front of us. Two girls out of nowhere attacked my sister. Still ________ about what was happening, I tried to pull one girl away, and just as I did, I felt something brush across my face. With my adrenaline rushing, I didn't realize a man had leaped out of the crowd and cut me. As I felt warm _____ ooze down my face, and watching him raise his knife toward me again, I turned to ______ myself and pulled that gun from my _________ and ________ the trigger. Thankfully, he didn't lose his life that day. My _____ _______ and heart racing, I was _________ in fear. From that moment, I felt regret that would never leave me.

Solution

  1. shaking
  2. waistband
  3. squeezed
  4. hands
  5. blood
  6. paralyzed
  7. confused
  8. defend

Original Text

As my sister and I were walking to the laundromat, a crowd stopped in front of us. Two girls out of nowhere attacked my sister. Still confused about what was happening, I tried to pull one girl away, and just as I did, I felt something brush across my face. With my adrenaline rushing, I didn't realize a man had leaped out of the crowd and cut me. As I felt warm blood ooze down my face, and watching him raise his knife toward me again, I turned to defend myself and pulled that gun from my waistband and squeezed the trigger. Thankfully, he didn't lose his life that day. My hands shaking and heart racing, I was paralyzed in fear. From that moment, I felt regret that would never leave me.

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Important Words

  1. adrenaline
  2. attacked
  3. blood
  4. brush
  5. confused
  6. crowd
  7. cut
  8. day
  9. defend
  10. face
  11. fear
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  14. girl
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  16. gun
  17. hands
  18. happening
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  20. knife
  21. laundromat
  22. leaped
  23. leave
  24. life
  25. lose
  26. man
  27. moment
  28. ooze
  29. paralyzed
  30. pull
  31. pulled
  32. racing
  33. raise
  34. realize
  35. regret
  36. rushing
  37. shaking
  38. sister
  39. squeezed
  40. stopped
  41. thankfully
  42. trigger
  43. turned
  44. waistband
  45. walking
  46. warm
  47. watching