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[Assistant] Apparently I draw the line there. Apparently that's my line. So yes, not a fan of it. Could not finish it. Did look up the ending. I'm glad I didn't finish it. I just, it felt more like family drama with like a who did it kind of murder thing. And


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[Assistant] No. No. The ratings on Goodreads are really bad, so I feel reassured it's not just me, but like, so bad.


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[Assistant] And finally, uh, Karen Slaughter is an author. That is definitely a me thing. I feel like people either give her five stars or also feel similarly as I do that she just goes too far. Uhm, I read


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[Assistant] Pretty girls by her, and then I accidentally read The Good Daughter. Basically was looking for a new audiobook at my library, clicked that one, had great reviews, did not realize it was the same author, and I was traumatized a second time. I just feel like she has a lot of gratuitous.


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[Assistant] You will know me, I really don't like whenever a mystery is basically family drama, there's no mystery. Like, there's no mystery whatsoever, it's just boring. One by one, by far her worst work.


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[Assistant] Silent patient, so much hype for nothing, so not worth it. Mallory, that's a perfect example of a book that should've stayed a standalone, and they decided to have a second book.


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[Assistant] I will hate you. Like, I don't care if it's aliens, ghosts, I- I don't- I don't care. I just want you to do your job and tell me what happened. If you leave it open, I see it as you had no idea how to finish your own book and you're making me do the work and it's not satisfying. Like, just- just do it.


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[Assistant] Just finish the damn book. It's just a pet peeve of mine. We all have those. But yes, uh, these are some of the best and worst books that I've read since I started booktube in the mystery, thriller, and horror categories.


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[Assistant] I do really like these, but I feel like I'm often disappointed, and I don't know if it's because I have read so many, and I grew up reading so many, that I struggle to find ones that will really blow my mind, but I still find some that I really, really enjoy.


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[Assistant] You just have to find, like, your specific categories, I guess, for, uh, each of them and then focus on them and you'll have more five stars. But yes, these are my recommendations, my best, my worst. I would love to know in the comment section if you have read some of these, your opinions on them, and obviously some recommendations for me.


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[Assistant] And everyone else because fall is the time where I just cracked that window. My neighbor has this huge apple tree that is completely red right now and it's just scream falls. It's cold actually today so I know what I'm doing in a couple of hours. I will be sitting down with a book because I'm gonna be reading a bunch of mystery trailers from now on until like December.


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[Assistant] And I can't wait. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thumbs up, subscribe. I will be putting more videos on the screen that are going to be on my new checkout. And I will see you very soon in the coming video. Bye.


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[Assistant] When we went to Professor Aifman's home, we found some handwritten notes on GN drives. I confirmed his theories and implemented the results in this particular machine. Really? I can't wait to see that.


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[Assistant] I'm very grateful you rescued Princess Marina from that center. From now on we'll assume responsibility for her safety. Shireen.


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[Assistant] Would you rather we left you with Celestial Being? But, what are you doing with a group of dissidents? Something wrong with that.


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[Assistant] Don't misunderstand us. All we're doing here is taking care of children who've been orphaned. The Federation's one-sided policies here in the Middle East cause real damage. And they are the living proof.


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[Assistant] Princess Marina, would it be alright if you spent some time with the children? Of course.


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[Assistant] That's what you say. But doesn't your goal of fighting the government's autonomous force directly coincide with our goals?


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[Assistant] Well, it looks as though there's no chance Celestial Being is going to join us.


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[Assistant] No sir. It's not my shirt.


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[Assistant] This is my shirt. My shirt's blue.


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[Assistant] Perhaps it is, sir. Tim's shirt's white.


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[Assistant] Tim? Yes sir? Is this your shirt? Yes sir.


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[Assistant] Here you are. Catch. Thank you, sir.


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[Assistant] No sir. It's not my shirt.


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[Assistant] Tim? Yes sir? Is this your shirt? Yes sir.


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[Assistant] Here you are. Catch. Thank you, sir.


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[Assistant] Captain Healing Care will deal with the Gundam. Our forces will take a defensive stance. Prepare for an assault by the enemy ships.


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[Assistant] He must be a thief. What have you come to steal?


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[Assistant] But remember, this is not an ordinary grinder. As you grind, it will fulfill every wish that you ask for. And once you are done, cover it with a red cloth. That will make it stop.


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[Assistant] How could this be? A few days back he came begging for money. And now suddenly he is so rich, something is wrong.


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[Assistant] I'm the bad type, making moments sad type, make a girlfriend mad type, messages your dad type. I'm the bad guy.


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[Assistant] And then create the rest of the sound. All in one sound. All in one breath. Some other examples of some two-letter consonant clusters. We have the word try. Same thing again. We should know how to pronounce that.


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[Assistant] Try. Feel that tongue move with that sound. It all moves together. Try. We also have the word friend. This one should be fairly easy because we're starting with a th where the teeth touch the bottom lip.


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[Assistant] However, they can be a little bit more tricky than that. For example, when we have the TH sounds, how about the word THREE?


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[Assistant] Now this is difficult because lots of people have problems with the th sound in general. The tongue needs to go between the teeth. So we rest the tip of the tongue in between the teeth.


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[Assistant] And then of course, we won't be prepared to lift the tongue to where it needs to be.


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[Assistant] So you just have to be really quick with that one. So feel the tongue lift as you move between the sounds.


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[Assistant] But remember, we need to treat all of this like one sound.


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[Assistant] Sk-er, all joined together, get the tongue in position. Sk-er, screet, discreet.


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[Assistant] Don't let there be any sounds. Don't do secrete. It needs to be screte. All together. Get ready for the next sound. And like I said, if you're not confident with pronouncing each of those consonant sounds, you need to learn how to pronounce them.


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[Assistant] She can turn a person's heart into ice and make them her slaves. We must save ourselves from the Snow Queen then.


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[Assistant] You can't buy these kind of experiences. An Italian nonna with all of these years of experience in her own restaurant, standing there at the stovetop, just chatting.


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[Assistant] So to make the basil oil, I really just put grapeseed oil in.


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[Assistant] Time is flying. I've emulsified the basil oil with the eggs like I normally would with a mayonnaise. And it's not thick like a mayonnaise normally would be, it's more of an emulsion. So it's now time for us to plate up.


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[Assistant] Somebody leaked the fact that I was there. So does that mean that, huh? That color.


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[Assistant] Homosexuality represents a misuse of the sexual faculty. It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.


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[Assistant] That's from Time Magazine in 1966, when I was three years old. And last year, the President of the United States came out in favor of gay marriage.


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[Assistant] When I was perhaps six years old, I went to a shoe store with my mother and my brother, and at the end of buying our shoes, the salesman said to us that we could each have a balloon to take home. My brother wanted a red balloon, and I wanted a pink balloon.


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[Assistant] My mother said that she thought I'd really rather have a blue balloon.


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[Assistant] But I said that I definitely wanted the pink one, and she reminded me that my favorite color was blue.


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[Assistant] The fact that my favorite color now is blue, but I'm still gay.


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[Assistant] Is evidence of both my mother's influence and its limits.


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[Assistant] When I was little, my mother used to say, the love you have for your children is like no other feeling in the world. And until you have children, you don't know what it's like.


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[Assistant] And when I was little I took it as the greatest compliment in the world that she would say that about parenting my brother and me.


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[Assistant] And when I was an adolescent, I thought, but I'm gay and so I probably can't have a family. And when she said it, it made me anxious. And after I came out of the closet, when she continued to say it, it made me furious. I said, I'm gay. That's not the direction that I'm headed in. And I want you to stop saying that.


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[Assistant] And I was rather taken aback. I had thought of deafness entirely as an illness. Those poor people, they couldn't hear, they lacked hearing, and what could we do for them?


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[Assistant] And then I went out into the deaf world. I went to deaf clubs. I saw performances of deaf theater and of deaf poetry. I even went to the Miss Deaf America contest in Nashville, Tennessee.


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[Assistant] Where people complained about that slurry southern signing.


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[Assistant] I became convinced that deafness was a culture, and that the people in the deaf world who said we don't lack hearing, we have membership in a culture, were saying something that was viable.


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[Assistant] It wasn't my culture, and I didn't particularly want to rush off and join it, but I appreciated that it was a culture, and that for the people who were members of it, it felt as valuable as Latino culture, or gay culture, or Jewish culture. Uhm, it felt as valid, perhaps even, as American culture. Then a friend of a friend of mine had a daughter who was a dwarf.


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[Assistant] And when her daughter was born, she suddenly found herself confronting questions that now began to seem quite resonant to me. She was facing the question of what to do with this child. Should she say, you're just like everyone else but a little bit shorter?


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[Assistant] Or should she try to construct some kind of dwarf identity, get involved in the little people of America, become aware of what was happening for dwarfs? And I suddenly thought most deaf children are born to hearing parents.


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[Assistant] And I thought there it is again, a family that perceives itself to be normal with a child who seems to be extraordinary.


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[Assistant] And I hatched the idea that there are really two kinds of identity.


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[Assistant] There are vertical identities which are passed down generationally from parent to child.


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[Assistant] Those are things like ethnicity, frequently nationality, language, often religion. Those are things you have in common with your parents and with your children.


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[Assistant] And while some of them can be difficult, there's no attempt to cure them.


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[Assistant] You could argue that it's harder in the United States, our current presidency notwithstanding, to be a person of color. And yet, we have nobody who is trying to ensure that the next generation of children born to African Americans and Asians come out with creamy skin and yellow hair.


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[Assistant] There are these other identities which you have to learn from a peer group.


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[Assistant] And I called them horizontal identities because the peer group is the horizontal experience. These are identities that are alien to your parents and that you have to discover when you get to see them in peers. And those identities, those horizontal identities, people have almost always tried to cure.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to look at what the process is through which people who have those identities come to a good relationship with them.


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[Assistant] And it seemed to me that there were three levels of acceptance that needed to take place. There's self acceptance, there's family acceptance, and there's social acceptance. And they don't always coincide.


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[Assistant] And a lot of the time people who have these conditions are very angry because they feel as though their parents don't love them when what actually has happened is that their parents don't accept them.


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[Assistant] Love is something that ideally is there unconditionally throughout the relationship between a parent and a child. But acceptance is something that takes time. It always takes time.


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[Assistant] One of the dwarfs I got to know was a guy named Clinton Brown.


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[Assistant] When he was born, he was diagnosed with diastrophic dwarfism, a very disabling condition. And his parents were told that he would never walk, he would never talk, he would have no intellectual capacity, and he would probably not even recognize them. And it was suggested to them that they leave him at the hospital so that he could die there quietly. And his mother said she wasn't going to do it.


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[Assistant] And she took her son home, and even though she didn't have a lot of educational or financial advantages, she found the best doctor in the country for dealing with diastrophic dwarfism. And she got Clinton enrolled with him, and in the course of his childhood, he had 30 major surgical procedures.


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[Assistant] And he spent all this time stuck in the hospital while he was having those procedures, as a result of which he now can walk.


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[Assistant] And while he was there, they sent tutors around to help him with his schoolwork, and he worked very hard because there was nothing else to do. And he ended up achieving at a level that had never before been contemplated by any member of his family.


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[Assistant] He was the first one in his family, in fact, to go to college where he lived on campus and drove a specially fitted car that accommodated his unusual body.


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[Assistant] And his mother told me the story of coming home one day and he went to college nearby and she said, and I saw that car, which you can always recognize in the parking lot of a bar. She said,


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[Assistant] And I thought to myself, they're six feet tall, he's three feet tall, two beers for them is four beers for him. She said, I knew I couldn't go in there and interrupt him, but I went home and I left him eight messages on his cell phone.


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[Assistant] She said, and then I thought if someone had said to me when he was born that my future worry would be that he'd go drinking and driving with his college buddies.


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[Assistant] And I said to her, what do you think you did that helped her to emerge as this charming, accomplished, wonderful person? And she said, what did I do? I loved him, that's all. Clinton just always had that light in him and his father and I were lucky enough to be the first to see it there.


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[Assistant] I'm going to quote from another magazine of the 60s. This one is from 1968, the Atlantic Monthly Voice of Liberal America, written by an important bioethicist. He said,


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[Assistant] There's been a lot of ink given to the enormous progress that we've made in the treatment of gay people. The fact that our attitude has changed is in the headlines every day.


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[Assistant] But we forget how we used to see people who had other differences, how we used to see people who were disabled, how inhuman we held people to be. And the change that's been accomplished there, which is almost equally radical, uh, is one that we pay not very much attention to.


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[Assistant] One of the families I interviewed, Tom and Karen Robards, were taken aback when, as young and successful New Yorkers, their first child was diagnosed with Down syndrome.


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[Assistant] They thought the educational opportunities for him were not what they should be, and so they decided they would build a little center, two classrooms that they started with a few other parents, to educate kids with DS.


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[Assistant] And over the years, that center grew into something called the Cook Center, where there are now thousands upon thousands of children with intellectual disabilities who are being taught.


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[Assistant] In the time since that Atlantic Monthly story ran, the life expectancy for people with Down Syndrome has tripled. Uhm, the experience of Down Syndrome people includes those who are actors, those who are writers, some who are able to live fully independently in adulthood.


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[Assistant] The Robards had a lot to do with that and I said, do you regret it? Do you wish your child didn't have Down syndrome? Do you wish you'd never heard of it?


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[Assistant] And interestingly, his father said, well, for David, our son, I regret it because for David, it's a difficult way to be in the world. And I'd like to give David an easier life.


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[Assistant] But I think if we lost everyone with Down syndrome, it would be a catastrophic loss. And Karen Robard said to me, I'm with Tom, for David I would cure it in an instant to give him an easier life.


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[Assistant] But speaking for myself, while I would never have believed 23 years ago when he was born that I could come to such a point, speaking for myself, it's made me so much better and so much kinder and so much more purposeful in my whole life that speaking for myself, I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world.


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[Assistant] We live at a point when social acceptance for these and many other conditions is on the up and up. And yet we also live at the moment when our ability to eliminate those conditions has reached a height we never imagined before.


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[Assistant] Most deaf infants born in the United States now will receive cochlear implants, which are, uh, put into the brain and connected to a receiver and which allow them to acquire a facsimile of hearing and to use oral speech.


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[Assistant] A compound that has been tested in mice, BMN111, is useful in preventing the action of the achondroplasia gene. Achondroplasia is the most common form of dwarfism and mice who have been given that substance and who have the achondroplasia gene grow to full size. Testing in humans is around the corner.


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[Assistant] There are blood tests which are making progress that would pick up Down syndrome more clearly and earlier in pregnancies than ever before, making it easier and easier for people to eliminate, uhm, those pregnancies or to terminate them. And so we have both social progress and medical progress.


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[Assistant] And I believe in both of them. I believe the social progress is fantastic and meaningful and wonderful. And I think the same thing about the medical progress.


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[Assistant] We have to think about how we feel about cures altogether. And a lot of the time the question of parenthood is, what do we validate in our children and what do we cure in them?


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[Assistant] Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist said, when parents say, I wish my child did not have autism, what they're really saying is, I wish the child I have did not exist, and I had a different non-autistic child instead.


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[Assistant] It's a very extreme point of view, but it points to the reality that people engage with the life they have and they don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.


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[Assistant] One of the families I interviewed for this project was the family of Dylan Klebold, who was one of the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre.


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[Assistant] It took a long time to persuade them to talk to me. And once they agreed, they were so full of their story that they couldn't stop telling it. And the first weekend I spent with them, the first of many, I recorded more than 20 hours of conversation. And on Sunday night we were all exhausted. We were sitting in the kitchen. Sue Klebold was fixing dinner.


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[Assistant] And I said, if Dylan were here now, do you have a sense of what you'd want to ask him?


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[Assistant] And his father said, I sure do. I'd want to ask him what the hell he thought he was doing. And Sue looked at the floor and she thought for a minute.


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[Assistant] And then she looked back up and said, I would ask him to forgive me for being his mother and never knowing what was going on inside his head.


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[Assistant] When I had dinner with her, a couple of years later, one of many dinners that we had together, she said, you know, when it first happened, I used to wish that I had never married, that I had never had children. If I hadn't gone to Ohio State and crossed paths with Tom, this child wouldn't have existed and this terrible thing wouldn't have happened.


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[Assistant] But I've come to feel that I love the children I had so much that I don't want to imagine a life without them.


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[Assistant] I recognize the pain they cause to others, for which there can be no forgiveness. But the pain they cause to me, there is, she said. So while I recognize that it would have been better for the world if Dylan had never been born.


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[Assistant] I've decided that it would not have been better for me.


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[Assistant] I thought it was surprising how all of these families had all of these children with all of these problems, problems that they mostly would have done anything to avoid and that they had all found so much meaning in that experience of parenting.


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[Assistant] And then I thought, all of us who have children love the children we have with their flaws. If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other better children, more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter,


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[Assistant] I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle.


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[Assistant] And ultimately, I feel that in the same way that we test flame retardant pajamas in an inferno to ensure they won't catch fire when our child reaches across the stove.


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[Assistant] So these stories of families negotiating these extreme differences reflect on the universal experience of parenting, which is always that sometimes you look at your child and you think, where did you come from?


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[Assistant] It turns out that while each of these individual differences is siloed, there are only so many families dealing with schizophrenia, there are only so many families of children who are transgender, there are only so many families of prodigies who also face similar challenges in many ways, there are only so many families in each of those categories.


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[Assistant] But if you start to think that the experience of negotiating difference within your family is what people are addressing, then you discover that it's a nearly universal phenomenon.


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[Assistant] Ironically, it turns out that it's our differences and our negotiation of difference that unite us.


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[Assistant] I decided to have children while I was working on this project. And many people were astonished and said, but how can you decide to have children in the midst of studying everything that can go wrong?


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[Assistant] And I said, I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be even when everything appears to be going wrong. I thought a lot about the mother of one disabled child I had seen


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[Assistant] Severely disabled child who died through caregiver neglect. And when his ashes were interred, his mother said,


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[Assistant] And I figured it was possible then for anyone to love any child if they had the effective will to do so. So my husband is the biological father of two children with some lesbian friends in Minneapolis.


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[Assistant] I had a close friend from college who'd gone through a divorce and wanted to have children and so she and I have a daughter and mother and daughter live in Texas.


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[Assistant] The shorthand is five parents of four children in three states.


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[Assistant] And there are people who think that the existence of my family somehow undermines or weakens or damages their family.


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[Assistant] There are people who think that families like mine shouldn't be allowed to exist, and I don't accept subtractive models of love.


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[Assistant] Only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way that we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.


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[Assistant] The day after our son was born, the pediatrician came into the hospital room and said she was concerned.


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[Assistant] He wasn't extending his legs appropriately. She said that might mean that he had brain damage.


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[Assistant] Insofar as he was extending them, he was doing so asymmetrically, which he thought could mean that there was a tumor of some kind in action.


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[Assistant] And he had a very large head, which he thought might indicate hydrocephalus.


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[Assistant] And as she told me all of these things, I felt the very center of my being pouring out onto the floor.


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[Assistant] And I thought here I had been working for years on a book about how much meaning people had found in the experience of parenting children who were disabled and I didn't want to join their number.


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[Assistant] Because what I was encountering was an idea of illness. And like all parents since the dawn of time, I wanted to protect my child from illness. And I wanted also to protect myself from illness.


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[Assistant] And yet I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, that those would ultimately be his identity. And if they were his identity, they would become my identity. That that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded.


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[Assistant] We took him to the MRI machine. We took him to the CAT scanner. We took this day old child and gave him over for an arterial blood draw. We felt helpless. And at the end of five hours, they said that his brain was completely clear and that he was by then extending his legs correctly.


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[Assistant] And when I asked the pediatrician what had been going on, she said she thought in the morning he had probably had a cramp.


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[Assistant] I thought how my mother was right. I thought the love you have for your children is unlike any other feeling in the world.


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[Assistant] And until you have children, you don't know what it feels like.


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[Assistant] I think children had ensnared me the moment I connected fatherhood with loss.


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[Assistant] But I'm not sure I would have noticed that if I hadn't been so in the thick of this research project of mine.


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[Assistant] I had encountered so much strange love, and I fell very naturally into its bewitching patterns. And I saw, I saw how splendor can illuminate even the most abject vulnerabilities.


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[Assistant] During these ten years, I had witnessed and learned the terrifying joy of unbearable responsibility. And I had come to see how it conquers everything else.


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[Assistant] And while I had sometimes thought the parents I was interviewing were fools, enslaving themselves to a lifetime's journey with their thankless children and trying to breed identity out of misery,


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[Assistant] I realized that day that my research had built me a plank and that I was ready to join them on their ship. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's incredible, like, I mean, you've got Morton Bay Bugs, which are my absolute favourite, the prawns, the bananas, the pineapples, they're all just like the most incredible fresh ingredients that you can get.


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[Assistant] So it's a coconut ice cream and a lychee syrup. So, Queensland flavours.


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[Assistant] hairdressers, hairdressers, pictures, pictures, customs officers, customs officers, taxi drivers,


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[Assistant] But let me make something perfectly clear. As soldiers, we're sworn to protect the interests of the Federation citizens. And that is why correcting the mistakes of a misguided government and military is also the sworn duty of a soldier.


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[Assistant] The solar power generation system we're creating with the orbital elevators is the hope that is going to lead humanity into the future.


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[Assistant] Look, even if it does come to that, with a responsible citizenry, a competent government, and a properly functioning military like ours to act as a deterrent against conflict, the path will open.


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[Assistant] We can alleviate the tension and work together to reach a deeper understanding.


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[Assistant] Sir, they're through the bulkhead walls! Switch the defenses to Mode S to repel them, just like we planned.


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[Assistant] The allies must have been deployed on the surface as well. Yet they've chosen not to attack.


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[Assistant] I guess its the least we can do. A good friend is in that machine.


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[Assistant] So you came after all, Sergei. Hercuri.


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[Assistant] Content with their wealth, they accept the assembly's policies without question.


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[Assistant] The air laws won't be that forgiving. This meeting is over.


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[Assistant] Return to the surface and convey my response to headquarters. We are not leaving here and we will fight to the last man to hold on to it. Take him away.


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[Assistant] Close the bulkhead walls like we planned. Have first infantry units secure the route and guide the citizens onto the trains. Second infantry unit will intercept the automatons. Yes sir. Okay.


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[Assistant] Civilians! They've programmed the automatons for kill mode?


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[Assistant] Like I told you, I'm gonna open the citizens' eyes by having them witness the atrocities of the Federation government's allies. Even if it's accompanied by pain.


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[Assistant] No matter what deceptions they use the truth will be out soon enough. That is why I ordered the citizens to be sent to the surface.


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[Assistant] Even so, they'll never be able to silence 60,000 eyewitnesses.


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[Assistant] Hi. I'm Gill at www.engvid.com, and today we're going to look at working in a charity shop or sometimes called a thrift store in... More in America, Canada.


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[Assistant] So, to explain what I mean by a charity shop, a charity


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[Assistant] Raises money for a particular purpose, so either for people in a disaster area,


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[Assistant] People needing food, clothing, shelter, money has to be raised, transport to take the things to the place where the disaster has happened. So, places like Oxfam, a charity called Oxfam, which operates all around the world.


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[Assistant] It began in Oxford, which partly explains its name. It started in Oxford and in response to a famine.


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[Assistant] So they put those two words together, oxfam, and so it has been running now for many, many years, and is a big international charity. Okay, so we have oxfam,


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[Assistant] The Salvation Army is another charity who operate in various countries, and they are partly a religious organization, but they are also very practical.


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[Assistant] Then there are two medical charities here that I've written down. Cancer Research and the particular UK-based charity, the British Heart Foundation, who do research into


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[Assistant] Maybe people have been growing their crops.


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[Assistant] But there has been very bad weather, and they have lost...


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[Assistant] Their crops, wheat, maize, vegetables, perhaps the whole harvest has been lost because of very bad weather, like heavy rain.


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[Assistant] Or if it's been very, very dry in a hot country and the crops don't grow and they haven't had the water to put on the crops for them to grow,


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[Assistant] Okay, so that explains Oxfam, how they started. So, working in a charity shop, you find these shops in many cities and towns in the UK, in


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[Assistant] North America, and often you can go in and buy maybe second-hand clothes or shoes.


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[Assistant] All sorts of things that you need, books, uhm,


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[Assistant] Coffee, tea, things like that. Uh, it's also called a thrift store because thrift means you don't spend a lot of money if you don't have a lot of money to spend.


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[Assistant] And the person didn't want the present, they never even tried it on, so they give it to the charity shop.


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[Assistant] So, and then the charity shop sells it, and that is how they raise their money for their particular purpose. Right. So, if... One of the good things about working in a charity shop, if you come


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[Assistant] To learn the language because you'll be working with other English-speaking people, so you have to speak to them to work with them. You might be having to speak to customers in the shop as well.


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[Assistant] So, it's a very good opportunity to learn a lot more vocabulary, how to say things, grammar maybe as well. So, it's a very good place to go if you're trying to get a job, but you haven't been able to get a job,


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[Assistant] To uhm, spend some time in a charity shop.


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[Assistant] Maybe just for a few hours a week or one day a week.


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[Assistant] I should explain that it's usually voluntary, which means it's not paid. It's unpaid work, but it's very good experience.


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[Assistant] Right, so an opportunity to learn the language. So these are some of the charities whose shops you might see, and they're all in the centre of towns and cities. You see them everywhere.


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[Assistant] Sometimes if they need volunteers, they will put a piece of paper in the window, a notice, that says we need more volunteers. Please come in and talk to us about it.


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[Assistant] But if you don't see a notice, don't let that put you off. You can just go in,


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[Assistant] Do they need any volunteers at the moment? Okay? So these are some of the things you could say. I'm looking for some voluntary work. Okay? Or I'm interested in volunteering.


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[Assistant] Or, do you have any volunteering vacancies? Vacancies means you need more people. There is an opening for another volunteer. Okay?


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[Assistant] And then you could say how much time you have available, like I could help out a few hours a week.


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[Assistant] And so on. Okay. So, let's imagine you've done all this, you've gone in and they have


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's have a look at some of the things you might be doing when you volunteer in a charity shop. So, uhm, obviously with any shop, you have to display things, you have to show them to customers. The window at the front of the shop


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[Assistant] Is, you know, you can set things out in the window to make them look nice, to make people want to come in. So the window,


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[Assistant] Inside the shop you have shelves which you can put things on in a nice display. Racks, that's metal things that you hang clothes on, on metal racks. So,


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[Assistant] Obviously, a lot of clothes are given. They have to be hung up on the racks. Okay?


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[Assistant] Somebody else might want them. Someone else will be willing to buy them. So,


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[Assistant] You have to sort... Somebody has to sort them. There is usually...


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[Assistant] Take the things out of the bags and decide.


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[Assistant] Whether they are good enough quality to sell,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then they decide on things like pricing.


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[Assistant] So what can we sell this for? A t-shirt, maybe £2 for a t-shirt.


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[Assistant] You then have to put a label on with that price.


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[Assistant] You might be asked to help on the till, the cash desk, when customers want to buy something. They hand over their money. You might say, would you like a bag to put that in? You might put it in a bag for them.


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[Assistant] You might need to give them their change and a receipt from the till. So that's handling the money side of things. Okay? So, what kind of things are usually donated to a charity shop?


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[Assistant] Well, books are always very popular. A lot of books. Clothes, shoes, handbags, scarves, like this, uh, jewellery.


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[Assistant] Necklaces, earrings, any jewellery, rings, anything like that you can think of. Um, ornaments which people put on their shelves at home to decorate their home.


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[Assistant] Okay? And some shops have a very big book section. I have an Oxfam shop. I can't point to it. It was on the previous board.


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[Assistant] I have a very big Oxfam shop near where I live, and the whole of the upstairs room is for books, and they divide the books up into categories to make it easier for people to find what they want.


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[Assistant] You may have to sort books into categories, which is especially good


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[Assistant] For learning the language and learning new words.


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[Assistant] Having to decide whether a book is a biography, uhm, a book


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[Assistant] About somebody written by somebody else, or an autobiography, a book written by that person about their own life. Uh, literature, like stories, novels, short stories.


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[Assistant] History, history books, uh, books on travel.


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[Assistant] Impossible, I can't possibly do that kind of thing. Cookery, not one of my strong points.


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[Assistant] And probably children's books as well, children's story books. So all of those kinds of books would be very good practice for you to be working with and putting them into their sections.


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[Assistant] So I hope that helps to show how useful it could be for you to do a little bit of volunteering in your local charity shop. There are charity shops in all sorts of places in the world, especially in the UK.


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[Assistant] Wherever you look, there's a charity shop. And if you buy things from a charity shop, they are usually very good value. So I hope that's helpful.


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[Assistant] If you'd like to visit the website, www.engvid.com, there's a quiz there which will ask you some questions on this subject, so please go and try that.


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[Assistant] Hercury, I'm here to give you a secret message from the Earth Sphere Federation Forces.


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[Assistant] You're telling me you came all the way up here just to tell me such a trifle? The Federation government's information control system is absolute. There's no way your message is gonna reach the world. Why have you taken innocent citizens hostage?


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[Assistant] Sir. No, I'm staying right here. What was that? Do you really believe I came here? Only because I was ordered to. I don't want to lose another.


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[Assistant] If we can use this to inform the world about the Federation's misgovernment and the allies' atrocities, then just maybe.


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[Assistant] The federation's making an official announcement. Are they finally gonna negotiate?


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[Assistant] There will never be a permanent peace as long as they resort to such deceitful methods.


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[Assistant] With this much fighting strength, there's no more need for tricks. Let's settle this once and for all, Kucho.


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[Assistant] All units disperse. The enemy's attack has a time limit. Until then, keep your distance.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to Book Break and get the tissues to the ready, because in this video I'm going to talk about books that will make you cry.


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[Assistant] Sometimes that's what you're looking for in a book. Sometimes it can be really cathartic to settle down with a heartbreaking book and just sob uncontrollably. Sounds strange when you say it that way, but I know I'm not the only one. So here are nine books that are guaranteed to make you cry.


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[Assistant] Starting with an obvious one, A Little Life by Hania Yanagihara. Half of Booktube have filmed themselves wailing to this book, and it really is that sad. This book is not going to be for everyone, there is a lot


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[Assistant] So not everyone is going to find that this book is suited to them and that's okay. But it does have a very dedicated following of the readers who do love it, myself included. I thought it was beautiful and it did make me cry a lot a lot.


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[Assistant] He also has a stand-in family who become more and more attached to you as the book goes on.


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[Assistant] But it just never gets easier for him and it is so heartbreaking watching this man continue to try and be okay with himself and never quite get there.


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[Assistant] I thought the characters in here were just so beautifully crafted, I really felt like I knew each and every one of them, and I wanted the book to be longer. It's already a big book, but I just wanted to dive even further into each character's life, into each of their backstories, and know where each of their stories were gonna go.


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[Assistant] This next one surprised me. This is The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arakawa, and I had heard people say that they cried over this book, but I have to admit I'm not a huge cat person. I like cats, but I'm a dog person, so I thought I would be immune to this book.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you, I was wrong. This book is about a man who takes his cat on a journey through Tokyo to meet various characters from his past.


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[Assistant] And slowly as the book goes on, you start to realise what this journey is for, why this is happening.


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[Assistant] And your heart will just slowly break, and the cat's heart will slowly break and it's all too much. It's such a good depiction of the relationship between humans and animals, the particular type of love that a human receives


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[Assistant] Cafe. It's a very unusual cafe where there's a particular seat that if you sit in it and get poured a special cup of coffee, you will go back in time just for the length of time before your coffee goes cold.


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[Assistant] And this series is made up of little vignettes, different characters who come to the cafe for different reasons to travel through time and meet people from their past, meet people from their future, and they are so


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[Assistant] The way these books are written are quite unusual. I believe they were originally a stage play, and you can kind of tell that from the way that it's written.


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[Assistant] And the simplicity of the writing just adds to the emotion. It's so straightforward that it just sucks you straight in to the character's souls.


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[Assistant] Shelter by Jeongyeon is an incredibly sad book. This is about a man called Kyung, and the book begins when his mother staggers into his garden, severely beaten, having been attacked. And the book then describes this very violent, awful attack on Kyung's parents.


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[Assistant] So this book jumps back and forth between the stories of a mother and daughter, both born in Jamaica but when the daughter is just around five years old,


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[Assistant] Her mother, Patsy, decides to leave her and move to New York to try and chase the life that she believes she always wanted. And we then followed them over the course of over a decade, through coping with her feelings of abandonment, having been left behind by her mother and having had no contact with her ever since,


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[Assistant] Patsy in New York, struggling with the fact that life isn't what she thought it was going to be, with her incredible feelings of guilt for having left her daughter true behind, and it just gets sadder and sadder. There are lots of moments of beauty and connection in here, but there are also a lot of really heartfelt moments.


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[Assistant] This quote on the back from Tyree Jones actually sums it up really well. Patsy is a heartbreaker, but a heart mender too. Our Souls at Night by Ken Harath is about two neighbours who later in life, having lived near each other for many many years, now finding themselves alone with their families long gone.


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[Assistant] To talk to in bed when everything feels very dark and very lonely, so it's really beautiful, and slowly they begin to develop more of a relationship. So there's a lot of loveliness in this book, but I did finish it with a massive lump in my throat.


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[Assistant] And just so much keeps going wrong for them. The book is all about resilience and determination and survival, so it's a really wonderful book, I loved it, but it did also just keep crushing me.


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[Assistant] The Most Precious of Cargos by Jean-Claude Grimberg is a sort of fairy tale, it's translated from French


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[Assistant] And finally there is Shuggy Bane by Douglas Stewart, the Booker Prize winner 2020. This is another one.


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[Assistant] Heart wrenching stuff, with characters that feel so real to you and that you so want to protect.


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[Assistant] So those are my top nine tearjacking books for when you just really want to cry, and I would love to know your recommendations as well. Do leave any books in the comments below that you think will make me cry, and I will give them a go and see if I can be strong enough to survive them.


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[Assistant] Right guys, blindfolds off. Write down your answer.


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[Assistant] A little clue, this one's not an ingredient. It's a dish.


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[Assistant] I think safe and perfect. You've gotta meet, meet the two together, please. Shall we get the first dish in?


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a dish that you want to pull out to save yourself. Great dish. Right, let's get the next dish in.


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[Assistant] Me the, the sambal, it's not my big problem here. My problem is the fact that, take the time to prepare the head properly.


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[Assistant] It's a shame, because I reckon time's what got on this contest, you know. Whoever this is, they're in trouble at the moment.


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[Assistant] For putting yourself out there, coming on this crazy adventure and cooking some delicious food.


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[Assistant] It's not one of your strengths either. You're built for nothing but firepower.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Gill at www.engvid.com


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[Assistant] And today we have a lesson on the little word


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[Assistant] And this is in response to a request from Najma, who posted a comment on the www.engvid.com website. So, thank you, Najma. I hope you're watching. This is for you. Okay. So, the use of the word


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[Assistant] It's a very common word. It's used all the time, and it's also used in different ways as different parts of speech. So it can be used as a noun, as an adjective, as an adverb,


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[Assistant] As a verb, and it can be used as part of a phrasal verb. So I'll be showing you examples of all of these. Okay. So, let's start with back used as a noun. Okay?


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[Assistant] So, for example, if you're talking about a friend of yours who when they get on the bus,


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[Assistant] They always go to the back. They like to sit at the back. So, he always sits at the back of the bus.


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[Assistant] Right, so he always sits at the back of the bus. Second one,


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[Assistant] Uh, it's probably not polite, though, to sort of...


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[Assistant] Other parts of the body may be not a good idea in public. So, okay, we'd better move on.


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[Assistant] Right. You're arranging to meet somebody.


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[Assistant] And depending on whether you're in America or in another part of the world where English is spoken, you can either say,


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[Assistant] Moving on to back, used as an adjective to describe something, a back something.


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[Assistant] This is the back door, the door at the back of the house, the back.


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[Assistant] He's in the back room, so different rooms in the house. A room at the back is called the back room as a magic, too. Okay.


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[Assistant] Right, then moving on, using back as an adverb.


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[Assistant] Where it sort of modifies a verb.


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[Assistant] I'm going back home now. You can say, I'm going home now, but going back home


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[Assistant] It's like the idea of returning home. I'm going back home now to go back.


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[Assistant] Right? And finally in this section, our neighbours are back from holiday.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we'll move on now to look at back used as a verb.


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[Assistant] Okay, so now let's have a look at back used as a verb. Right, so for example, the car was backing into the street, so the car was going backwards


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[Assistant] Into the street, it was backing. So, to back is what a car can do. Okay?


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[Assistant] Uhm, another way of backing somebody or something, uh, if you say don't worry, uhm,


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[Assistant] If you want to raise this issue with the boss, I will back you, meaning I will support you.


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[Assistant] If there's a problem in the office and your friend is a little bit unsure about whether to talk to the boss about it,


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[Assistant] And a similar idea of supporting. The company will back the project. That usually means money.


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[Assistant] Putting money into a project to make something happen, so to back something can be financial. Okay.


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[Assistant] And then if we move on to look at some phrasal verbs where back is used with another verb, there are different uses of that. So, for example,


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[Assistant] Maybe somebody is saying something that you don't agree with, and


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[Assistant] But sometimes you just have to say, well, actually,


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[Assistant] I don't think that's true. You're challenging the person, disagreeing with them. So, when I challenged her, she backed down.


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[Assistant] It means she, um, she didn't keep saying, Oh, well, no, that is true. She didn't. She did the opposite. She sort of... It's like taking a step back and saying, Oh, okay, then maybe I'm wrong.


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[Assistant] You... You may be right. So if you challenge somebody, they are either going to argue back or they're going to say,


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[Assistant] I'm not going to argue that's backing down if you're sort of standing back from it.


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[Assistant] These files, meaning to make a copy of some files in case you lose the original copy on your computer, you have a backup.


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[Assistant] Copy. To back up some files on the computer is to make an extra copy and maybe keep it somewhere else on a disk or a memory stick or something for security. Okay? So, to back up. Now, if you have made an agreement with someone


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[Assistant] But then they change their mind. They think, Oh, no, I don't want to do that after all. He wants to back out of the agreement.


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[Assistant] He doesn't want to do this anymore. He wants to back out of the agreement. He doesn't want to do it. So going back away from it.


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[Assistant] And then finally, just a simple one, uhm, I have lent my book to somebody. She has forgotten to give me back my book. So, to give back is a phrasal verb. This time,


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[Assistant] You can't say she has forgotten to give back me my book. It's to give me back my book. So that is a little tricky, but that's how you say it.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I hope that's been a helpful overview of how the word back is used as different parts of speech. And if you'd like to do a quiz to test yourself on this,


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[Assistant] Please go to the website at www.engvid.com and do the quiz. And if you'd like to subscribe to my channel on YouTube, that would be great. And hope to see you again soon. Okay. Bye for now.


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[Assistant] Oops. Sorry, I forgot. Talking about forgetting.


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[Assistant] I missed one of my examples, so let's go back and have a look at it. Okay.


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[Assistant] I think you should back off, back off, meaning both of you step back away from each other, otherwise it'll be


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[Assistant] Like that. And not a good idea. So I think you should back off, calm down. We don't want to fight. Let's make friends again once you calm down. So back off, step back. Okay, that's it.


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[Assistant] They were a poor couple with no child of their own, but they were happy together.


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[Assistant] One day while cutting bamboos in the forest, he saw a strange bamboo right in the center.


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[Assistant] As she admired her, a soft breeze came through the window.


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[Assistant] The bamboo cutter and his wife knew at once.


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[Assistant] It was their little moonlight who had brought good fortune with her.


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[Assistant] Soon, they became rich. They gave their moonlight good food and dresses made of expensive silk.


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[Assistant] In a short period of time, Moonlight grew to be a beautiful young woman.


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[Assistant] Her hair was silkier than the expensive dresses she wore. Her eyes sparkled like stars.


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[Assistant] But the bamboo cutter had something else to worry about.


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[Assistant] The villagers had begun to ask him about the beautiful girl in their house.


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[Assistant] He told her that there were many suitors who had asked for her hand. No father, I can't live without you. Why are you sending me away?


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[Assistant] The next day, five young suitors came to see Moonlight. They could not take their eyes off her.


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[Assistant] Moonlight looked at them with no smile on her face and spoke with no excitement in her voice.


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[Assistant] I want no moon, no stars, and no pearl from the ocean.


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[Assistant] She then asked the first suitor to bring her a bowl made of stone from a monk in India.


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[Assistant] From the second suitor, she asked for a branch of the only tree which grew at the peak of the tallest mountain on the eastern sea.


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[Assistant] Don't disrespect me by bringing a fake one. The third suitor was asked to go to China and bring the robe of the fire rat.


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[Assistant] The fourth was asked to bring the jewel that had seven colors. It lay on the head of a dragon. And finally... Find the swallow who carries a shell in her stomach and bring me that shell. Thank you all for coming. What am I going to do?


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[Assistant] Moonlight knew that the tests were impossible.


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[Assistant] But this was the only way for her to stay with her parents forever. Weeks passed, but the suitors never returned.


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[Assistant] But it could not shine brighter than moonlight herself.


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[Assistant] As she walked out, he was struck with her beauty. He was determined to marry her. But Moonlight had something to say.


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[Assistant] Oh noble one, I know you can give me anything that I wish for.


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[Assistant] The jewel of the dragon, the robe of the fire axe.


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[Assistant] The branch of the golden trunk are challenges which you can easily overcome. So I ask you for only one thing. Respect my wish to not want to marry and make no demands to know why.


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[Assistant] As if someone has stolen its light. He was worried for his daughter.


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[Assistant] The emperor swore to not let anybody take his moonlight away.


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[Assistant] Moonlight's house was surrounded by two thousand royal guards ready with their arrows. The emperor himself


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[Assistant] The fairies touched Moonlight with a silver shiny feather, and Moonlight's dress was transformed into a long, flowy white gown.


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[Assistant] The moon is dull because I am here on earth. I am the moonlight. The moon is incomplete without me.


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[Assistant] Moonlight sat in her cart and happily waved goodbye to her people on Earth. She was not sad for she knew she will always watch over them from the sky. The cart took her up to the moon.


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[Assistant] The bamboo cutter wiped his tears and waited for his moonlight to return. And she did, as the light to the full moon. The moon shone with its full might.


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[Assistant] The emperor never married anyone else. Every night, he would stare at the moon for hours and smile at the love of his life.


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[Assistant] For that was the only way to let his moonlight enter their house through the roof in the night. The bamboo cutter and his wife spent the rest of their lives in peace. The end.


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[Assistant] Don't listen to both of them, Princess. I will bring you the shiniest pearl from the ocean.


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[Assistant] This facility works like a pantry, for future cases when the body might be in need of nutrients.


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[Assistant] When it spots a useless or toxic substance, it either converts it into a product that can't hurt the body or isolates it and whisks it away.


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[Assistant] To the cholesterol that helps the body create hormones. It also makes vitamin D and substances that help digestion. But one of its most vital products is bile.


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[Assistant] As it's produced, bile is funneled into a small container below the liver called the gallbladder before being trickled into the intestine to help break down fats, destroy microbes, and neutralize extra stomach acid.


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[Assistant] The bile also helps carry other toxins and byproducts from the liver out of the body. So as you can see, the liver is an extremely efficient industrial site, performing multiple tasks that support each other.


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[Assistant] But such a complex system needs to be kept running smoothly by keeping it healthy and not overloading it with more toxins than it can handle. This is one factory we simply can't afford to shut down.


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[Assistant] What's going on? A new's been defeated as well. Even though we're innovators!


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[Assistant] Gold at the Culinary Olympics, that's, that's massive.


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[Assistant] This is brutal. My memory's not the best and to be honest, I'm scared about this challenge today. I'm stressing out.


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[Assistant] What he's doing. Bring that to the simmer. And then try to lock it down in my head of the specific measurements. Strawberry liqueur.


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[Assistant] Pretty sure it was 10 grams, so I'm just gonna go with that. I'm just praying that it's right.


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[Assistant] Hooray, my gelatin's finally soft, I can add it to the cremeux. All deep, all deep.


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[Assistant] And get it in the blast chiller. I just hope I haven't messed up the consistency. Yeah, good work Tim, that looks great mate. Well done pal.


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[Assistant] I've just remembered Shannon's spoon booze all over his sponges and I've forgotten to do that.


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[Assistant] I've still got three that I haven't done so I'll do it now and she should be sweet. I've got some sponge left over. Get them covered in the booze. Yep. Go Tim!


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[Assistant] Trying to pop my bars out of the mould. Be gentle, Tim.


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[Assistant] I can't give up, I'll get him back in the blast chiller, give him as long as I can


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[Assistant] I carefully take off the sticky tape and I've got these beautiful chocolate ribbons. I didn't think I could do that.


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[Assistant] My biggest concern is my bar. I just feel like it's not up to scratch and that could be the thing that sends me home.


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[Assistant] I'm nervous, my heart's beating, moving miles and miles an hour at the moment, but uhm, it was hectic, especially those last 15 minutes for me.


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[Assistant] I'm learning heaps, and yeah, I miss her. Uhm, of course, that's normal, but...


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[Assistant] I'm just thankful, just thankful for the experience. Never in my wildest dreams thought that I would have got to, to all the different things that I've got to in the last few weeks. And just to be around you guys, I've already learnt so much just from your insight into things and I'll take away everything that you've said and


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[Assistant] Take that and get my food truck going as soon as I can. You're all welcome. And uhm, and to, to these guys, it's just such an amazing group of people. Yeah, I'm shattered to be eliminated. I'm not ready to go home. This has been such an amazing journey. But I think I can hold my head high. Uhm, I just, I'm gonna, I'm gonna miss you guys, but,


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[Assistant] Thanks so much. It's been a pleasure, Mike. All the best. Being in this competition has just ignited the fire and given me the confidence that I need to take that next step.


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[Assistant] We have an amazing week of challenges up our sleeves. Because wait for it. This is Sweet Week.


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[Assistant] The challenge today is to use at least one of the ingredients in your mystery box to bring us a sweet dish. Hopefully, it'll blow our socks off.


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[Assistant] And we'll only be tasting the three most appealing dishes.


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[Assistant] Look, yes it's Heston and he wants a little trick in there, but do you have time and do you have the experience? That pastry can take a bit of time to bake.


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[Assistant] What an interesting cook, the start of sweet week. So much more to come. Now remember, we're picking the three most impressive looking dishes and if you win this first round, straight through to the immunity. So, first up to taste is...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the idea of, you know, instead of a brandy snap basket, you got something you can smash through. You should smash. Go, crack it. Go.


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[Assistant] And I'll tell you right now, that ice cream and honeycomb is off the dial, like it's beautiful.


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[Assistant] You know how sometimes we ask you to think outside of the box? Well today, we want you to think inside the box.


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[Assistant] So, we asked you to bring us an inventive dish using cereal.


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[Assistant] The top three dishes get a shot at immunity along with Larissa, but the three least impressive dishes find their makers in a pressure test.


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[Assistant] I love the pastry, it's really short, crumbly, it's well cooked, really good dessert.


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[Assistant] Derek, Simon, Steph, the three of you are so close to the top ten.


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[Assistant] We know that you don't want to go home, so you have to keep fighting. Because this week's pressure test starts


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[Assistant] Nice. Good start so far, have you? Third time in immunity today and third time lucky. I'm hoping that's the case, but I'm gonna push it so hard and try and get it today.


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[Assistant] I'm grating some ginger and grating beetroot for the base of the cake and combine that with flour, baking powder, eggs and olive oil.


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[Assistant] There are many windows in my house.


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[Assistant] There are television, sofas, and a bookshelf. There's a soft carpet on the floor.


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[Assistant] There are a stove, a refrigerator, and a table.


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[Assistant] Now in an American accent, you would hear this pronounced as errr, like a pirate, right? Errr. But in British English, we will not pronounce the er sound in most areas of the south of England, if you want that RP accent. If you want to speak like me, you would pronounce Easter with an uh.


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[Assistant] So Easter is celebrated over a weekend. It starts on Friday and it ends on Monday night. Now this kind of weekend or holiday is known as Easter weekend. Now let's just practice the pronunciation of that. Easter weekend.


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[Assistant] I'm connecting my speech. I am pronouncing that R at the end of Easter. It's becoming Easter eggs. The reason why is because Easter finishes with a vowel sound, a schwa sound. Easter. That's a vowel.


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[Assistant] And this is where I will now start talking about something called the Easter Bunny. The Easter Bunny is an imaginary creature. Uh, it's a rabbit, which also we know as a bunny. Uh, and it delivers gifts to children.


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[Assistant] Savory food like meat or vegetables and salty things. Let me know.


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[Assistant] And we have one more thing which we call an Easter basket.


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[Assistant] After the R sound or the A sound. So with the RP accent, that means it needs to be pronounced with an R. I'd also like you to write in the comments,


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[Assistant] The reason why is because roast finishes with a T.


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[Assistant] And dinner begins with D. So the T will actually disappear and kind of adapt to the sound of the D at the beginning of the next word. Roast dinner. Roast dinner.


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[Assistant] Our roast dinner is when we roast meat, potatoes, we have lots of vegetables and gravy on top. This is a very traditional British meal. It's probably the most British thing that you could eat, a roast dinner on a Sunday. So that's what I'll be doing at Easter and this is what I think


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[Assistant] Holidays are all about. They're about spending time with your family. Whether you celebrate the religious meaning or not, you spend time with your family, you appreciate what you have, and you just spread the love.


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[Assistant] So, you mean a comet has two tails? Absolutely. Oh, stop bluffing. No.


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[Assistant] So, when you see these four ingredients, like core ingredients, so you've got sugar snaps, oyster blade, beetroot and shiitake mushrooms. Normally, you just have to use one core ingredient. Yesterday, you had to pair two ingredients to make one delicious dish, but today,


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[Assistant] We want you to take three of these ingredients, bring them together in one delicious dish, fit to beat those standing around you. You can choose any of the ingredients to use, you don't have to use the one you bought.


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[Assistant] The freshness of the peas, the acidity of the pickle, absolutely spectacular. They all just go to make the beef a carrier for all those fantastic flavours. We said on Sunday that that was the best dish you've cooked so far in the competition. Today, your clips then.


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[Assistant] What you gotta learn is, if that custard is rubbish, it doesn't go on the plate. And you stand by the other elements.


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[Assistant] The thing that really rules this dish is that is...


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[Assistant] If I was a top professional chef and I'm obviously I'm not, I would be quaking in my boots.


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[Assistant] Because any one of you could win the bin today judging by how you are cooking. But what makes it more terrifying is that one of you has actually won this round.


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[Assistant] And one of you has run it with their best dish of the competition so far. A dish so beautiful, so tasty, so undeniably brilliant. It deserves that white jacket. You know it's you Tessa. Come and get it.


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[Assistant] Tessa, congratulations. Now all that stands between you and the pin in George's pocket is today's professional.


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[Assistant] He's been in the industry for 24 years. He started out at the Beach Hotel in Byron Bay.


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[Assistant] More recently he was head chef and part owner of, I think probably one of the most famous cafe groups in Melbourne, Top Paddock and Kettle Black.


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[Assistant] At North Bondi fish in Sydney, please welcome Jesse McTavish.


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[Assistant] Jesse, good to see you again. Good to see you guys. Thanks for having me. Cooking on the edge of Bondi Beach. Not a bad view from the north end, is it? It's a good office.


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[Assistant] Give us a bit of a sense of the style of food you're cooking at North Bondi Fish.


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[Assistant] Jesse, you need Vinny Metal, cuz...


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[Assistant] Tessa really is cooking beautiful food and she's gonna have Maddie Sinclair, the cider in the kitchen. That's no mean double act.


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[Assistant] Wow, what an interesting round two. Matty, how's the journey with the cook?


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[Assistant] The magic number for you is 23 or more. Get that? You win the pin.


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[Assistant] Jesse, fantastic. Thank you so much for coming in and being such a great sport.


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[Assistant] Dresses. Dresses. Blouses.


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[Assistant] Color mixing. Red. Blue. Purple.


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[Assistant] Blue. Yellow. Green.


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[Assistant] Yellow. Red. Orange.


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[Assistant] Red, yellow, blue, black


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[Assistant] Black. Orange. Brown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right guys. You're gonna need these. But, before you put them on, this isn't your typical pressure test. This is a two day pressure test.


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[Assistant] Derek, read it, read it again because something's not right. Second turn. Letter Fault. I think you got this wrong, man.


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[Assistant] This here is an important piece of machinery, because it's all about proving, correct?


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[Assistant] Let's be quite honest, at the start of this pressure test, Matt, Gary and I just were like, no honest, we just don't want this to happen. Because each of you are just beautiful people and incredible cooks.


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[Assistant] You're a great ambassador for all amazing, hardworking mums out there, that if you've got a dream and a desire, you can do it.


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[Assistant] The winner of round one will make it into top 10 2019!


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[Assistant] Yeah, first time using absolutely everything in Mystery Box, so pressure's a lot higher.


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[Assistant] Today I'm really aiming to achieve as much as I can. I plan on doing a cauliflower macadamia nut puree, um, roasting some cauliflower. That's gotta get in the oven fast and get it nice and charred and golden, which is the delicious bits.


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[Assistant] Pickling some of the leaves and some of the florets. Confine the cauliflower stem and frying off some of the leaves.


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[Assistant] Feeling really happy. Done a lot of elements, put a lot of effort into this plate, but I think everything belongs there and everything works well together. Yeah, it's a dish that I'm really happy with.


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[Assistant] So I've got really deep roasted cauliflower, we've got cauliflower macadamia nut puree, we've got pickled cauliflower leaves, pickled cauliflower florets, and then we've got, uhm, cauliflower leaves fried in the quesa fresh flat. We've also got confit cauliflower stem.


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[Assistant] That's the point of it. Yeah. I kind of want to have a look little bits that come out in spring when you open.


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[Assistant] The first DNF of this video is going to be the James Bond series. I read Casino Royale a couple years ago.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was obsessed with this series in high school. I read the first two books. I loved them. But it's just not something I really want to continue on with anymore. Essentially this kid finds out, or he knows that his dad is a serial killer and...


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[Assistant] What a man. But, DNF. I'm sorry. Did not like this. The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black really, really did not like this. I thought this was awful. Uhm, like just so bad. I read the first two and I just could not bring myself to finish the last one, so DNF.


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[Assistant] I'm kind of sad that I want to do enough Caravelle, the Caravelle series by Stephanie Gerber, um, I just, I don't know, the first one, I really loved the first book, Caravelle, it was so magical, it's just like extremely...


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[Assistant] Bye. The Winter Night Trilogy by Katherine Arden. I was also severely disappointed by this and I was kind of shocked because I thought I was gonna love this but did not. Three Dark Crowns. This is one of the worst young adult books I've ever read, so yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, December of last year, so that is that one. I think I gave this like, one star.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I also read Ninth House last year. Really, really did not like it, like, at all.


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[Assistant] Like this very much, so I will not be continuing on, I don't think. Like I have heard it gets better, so that's encouraging, but just like, for the moment at least, it is going on the DNF pile because


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[Assistant] My soul has been cleansed. Okay, very good. So, now we can prioritize all of the series that I want to continue. We have 47 of them to go through.


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[Assistant] We'll for sure be continuing on with, the first is just the whole Agatha Christie cinematic universe.


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[Assistant] I will 100% probably read any book by her now, even though I haven't read that many, but they're just, they're just things I love. I'm so excited to pick up anything that she's written.


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[Assistant] Such a classic, so wonderful. One of my favorite reads of the year so far. I cannot wait to read more. I cannot wait to read Anne of Avonlea. And I have a few more from her years, so I'm just so excited. This was spectacular. If you want to do yourself any kind of favor, read Anne of Green Gables. Read Anne of Green Gables.


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[Assistant] No matter who you are, uhm, I think you will.


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[Assistant] Love it. So those are kind of the classics that I have, and then...


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[Assistant] I think we're just gonna swing into young adult because I think this might be not the biggest, but certainly one where I have a bunch. So we're gonna start with probably the oldest here.


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[Assistant] For trash. I keep that door open. Another older young adult series that I kinda wanna continue is Mask of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin. I don't actually know what this series is called, but this is set in a futuristic kind of dystopian world where Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and


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[Assistant] Thirteen? Twenty-fourteen? Uhm, and I've only read the first two, but I do have the last one on my shelf. So essentially, they are gothic retellings of, uhm, The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells.


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[Assistant] So, I do have Traitor to the Throne, I think I found this thrifted, so it looks brand new, but uhm, I might need to reread the first one, I haven't heard too many people talk about this, I kinda forget everything that happened in it, but,


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[Assistant] Kind of interested in continuing on with this, and I do maybe want to give it another, another go. Finally, a series that I just love.


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[Assistant] World, the Ravenspire novels by C.J. Redwine. The Blood Spell is one of my favorites. New favorite young adult books. I read this last year. Loved it.


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[Assistant] I've also read The Wishgranter, these are all fairy tale retellings, so this one was Cinderella, and The Wishgranter is Rumpelstiltskin, and I think there's at least


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[Assistant] Frostblood. Uh, I don't know. The Frostblood Saga though. I really loved the first one. Oh! Ellie Blake.


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[Assistant] Is it Ellie Blake? I really really like the first one, even though it is just your absolutely standard cut and paste young adult fantasy novel. Like, it literally works in every single trope.


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[Assistant] But for me, it just, it worked so well for some reason, like I think it was just executed really well in my opinion, I love the characters, I love the romance, there's tons of banter, tons of like enemies to lovers going on, and I just...


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[Assistant] Really, really liked it, so I'm like so stoked to continue the series. It was such a wonderful companion in the winter months as well, so honestly super excited for this.


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[Assistant] Another one I'm really excited for. Okay, these are definitely at the top. Uhm, definitely ones that I want to continue. I don't know what this series is called, but the first one is a song of Wraiths and Ruin. That might also be what this series is called. This is by Rosanne Brown.


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[Assistant] I read this last year, fell in love. Loved it, loved it, loved it. I know the second book, I think, came out this year already, so.


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[Assistant] Follow along even if it's literally years later, so that's kind of why I have 47 on the go.


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[Assistant] But as well, like I do wanna just, you know, finish some, prioritize some, give you my full thoughts on some, just be able to like...


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[Assistant] Maybe if you gave us, maybe if you gave us something, I would continue. I would consider finishing this. But you're giving us nothing. George.


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[Assistant] Where is it? George? George, where's your book? I, yeah, I've said this before, but I just don't want to finish the series when I know the series might never be finished.


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[Assistant] But I am so certain that in the second one things will pick up, so I think I want to continue. But once again, him, Patrick and George. Patrick and George are on an island getaway somewhere.


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[Assistant] And they're not writing their books, and they're laughing at all of us. The Courts of Thorns and Roses series? That's what this is called, right? I do want to continue this. I read A Court of Thorns and Roses in 20... 20?


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[Assistant] I'm super underwhelmed by it, but again, this is one that I've heard just gets a lot better, and I do wanna like give it another shot kind of thing, and also recent. So.


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[Assistant] And this series, like, this never happens with me with this series where I just, like, gobble all the books up. I've never- I don't think I'm waiting, actually, on any of these series for, like, new books to come out and, like, I know when they come out, I'll just read it immediately. But with the Fortune of Sworn series, that's exactly what I'm waiting for. The fourth book comes out in December of this year, so I am patiently


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[Assistant] Patiently waiting, but this was just amazing. This like, reignited my love. And like, kinda made me discover my love of fantasy romance, because I didn't know that really existed before.


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[Assistant] And I just really, really enjoyed this. We follow Fortuna, who is a nightmare.


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[Assistant] And they go find her brother, but there's so much more than that. It's just, I don't know, it's just so good. It made me cry, it made me feel so much, and I just really appreciated this series for a number of reasons, so...


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[Assistant] Wow, don't think it's for everyone, it's a super dark fantasy at times as well, so please do know that, but...


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[Assistant] I read the first one this year too, and like, I really loved the beginning, but then I feel like it kind of lost me.


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[Assistant] Definitely want to keep going with this, but then as well there's other...


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[Assistant] It is Oscar Wilde, but he essentially is Sherlock Holmes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he solves a lot of mysteries. It's super well researched. It's so good. It's so funny. Uhm, I was expecting this to be a kind of like, weird disappointment, but one that was like, so bad it was good. But it was actually just good. So, would highly recommend if you haven't checked these out. Uhm, like I said, I read two of them.


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[Assistant] It was brilliant. It was. It was so good. I cannot wait to read the next one if you're looking for a completely immersive kind of coming of age book that is so real, just like comes out of the page that you highly recommend.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then I have four manga series that I'm currently in the middle of. The first one is Tokyo Ghoul. I literally have only read the first volume and that was last summer. So I do really want to get my hands on the next one because this was like my reemergence into manga was through Tokyo Ghoul, which I appreciate so much.


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[Assistant] Because then I picked up Sailor Moon, I cannot wait to go through this whole series. I'm currently on volume three, uhm, which I do have, and I'm so excited to pick up, so just absolutely love this. They're like all five stars for me, and


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[Assistant] Is one that I don't know if I want to continue. This is about a secretary who starts to work for a vampire. Uhm, and like, it was just...


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[Assistant] This is like kind of the ones where it was so bad, it was good. An Incurable Case of Love by Mackie and Joji is a hospital drama that I want to give another shot to. I picked up volume 2, so we shall see. This was, this was like pretty good, but I just didn't love it as much as I wanted to. It is, again, an enemies to lovers kind of storyline, and yeah, we'll just see.


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[Assistant] Shelf. So in no particular order, we have His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. This is book three, but I've only read book one. Uhm, The Golden Compass. Really loved it. Like, loved it so much. Like, a magical children's series that takes so much inspiration from Paradise Lost. Yes, it was so good. Loved it.


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[Assistant] I think companion novels, but they're set in the same world, so I have the next one. Absolutely love this.


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[Assistant] So much. This one, not so much. This is the Bartimaeus trilogy.


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[Assistant] Definitely not a priority, but as well, it's not something that I hated and want to like, never touch again. The same goes with Lemony Snicket's Newer series, which is, uhm, All the Wrong Questions.


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[Assistant] I read volume 1, who could that be at this hour? I just, I really do love Lemony Snicket, I really, really do, so I do want to continue on with this one too. This is like a completely new mystery series following, I think, young Lemony Snicket himself.


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[Assistant] It was wild. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trent Lee Stewart. Uhm, this was just, this was fine. I don't know if I want to continue on with this. I think it's a fairly long series. Essentially, we follow a whole bunch of children who get inducted as detectives into this.


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[Assistant] Definitely want to get to the next one in both of these, although I think you can read them out of order as well.


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[Assistant] Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. Uhm, I read this this year. Definitely does not compare at all to, uhm, the Illuminae file series. That is just top tier, but this was still entertaining.


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[Assistant] Just finish a few. Thank you for coming to my confession, my confessional.


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[Assistant] Keep on here for no reason if they don't get better, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, definitely want to finish this one. I only have one more book, so anyway. Okay, that's the last one. Until then, I will see you... I will see you soon. So, ciao!


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[Assistant] It's a beautiful day guys, lifeguards are out. Who wants to


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[Assistant] James Brady, wow, like he's such an awesome chef and to think of what challenge is facing us with him here, it's making me really nervous.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I knew it was looming, I knew I'd have to do one at some stage and to do it in front of rickshaws, I'm pumped.


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[Assistant] I'm so determined not to go into round two. I pride myself on preparing seafood, so I want to do James and the judges proud and show them that I can do this quite well.


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[Assistant] I'll definitely be taking on James' technique de-shelling and de-veining the prawns. I'm just gonna follow him perfectly today.


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[Assistant] For my snapper, I'm gonna follow James's technique so that our fillets are almost identical.


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[Assistant] I'm really happy with my billet, but I'm up against some stiff competition today. I hope that I can show my talent and my skills enough to make it through today.


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[Assistant] Particularly on those bugs, because I haven't worked with them very much at all, so I would really like to know how to do them properly.


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[Assistant] As the judges go past my plate, I'm just pleading in my head, just please, please, please, just like what I've done.


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[Assistant] Round two is somewhere I don't want to be. However, I'm gonna cook my heart out and try and make an amazing bit of food.


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[Assistant] But we also have to cook the seafood from round one, and I'm cooking prawns. After yesterday, the pressure is huge.


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[Assistant] The mistake was that I did too many at once and I didn't focus on one prawn and they'd give it justice. So my idea here would be to do exactly that. Just do four beautiful prawns. Exactly right. I need to make sure these prawns are perfect.


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[Assistant] Yesterday's challenge was definitely a disappointment for me in the prawns situation. But today it's a new day, it's a new day for me to perform.


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[Assistant] I've created a Tom Yum soup and it's gonna be the base of my crab and yabbies. But it needs to create flavour before I can cook the yabbies and the crab in it.


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[Assistant] I feel as though that I've done quite a lot already, but I really haven't gone on to cooking my seafood yet and that's the main part of the challenge.