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Book 21 Page 4
News desensitization
A news flash
Six hundred people died today as a Jumbo jet fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
O that’s terrible!
News’s up date ten minutes latter
Six hundred people died today as a Jumbo jet fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
O that’s real bad.
The five o’clock news
Six hundred people died today as a Jumbo jet fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
O what a shame.
Six hundred people died today as a Jumbo jet fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
I’ve already heard that, what else has happened?
The nine o’clock news update
Six hundred people died today as a Jumbo jet fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
Big deal, I wonder what’s on the other channels.
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