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Final Performance: Kirsten Johnson and Aimee Heerd
The Truth About Stories: Aimee’s Mad Lib
There is a story I know. It’s about the _______________________ and
(#1: a planetary object)
how it _____________________ on the ______________ of a/n _______
(#2: 3rd person singular verb) (#3: A body part) (#4: animal)
…And the ____________________ never _____________________
(#5: same animal as #4) (#6: 3rd person singular verb)
away. One time…a/n ________________ girl…asked about the
(#7: adjective)
______________________ and the _______________________. If the
(#8: Same animal as #4/5) (#9: Same as #1.)
_________________ was on the ________________ of a ________________, what
(#10: Same as #1/9) (#11: Same as #3) (#12: same as #4)
was ___________________ the ____________________? Another
(#13: preposition) (#14: same as #4/12)
________________________…And ________________ that ___________________?
(#15: same as #4/12/14) (#16: preposition) (#17: same as #4/12/14)
Another _________________________…The girl began to ___________ …So
(#18: same as #4/12/14/17) (#19: verb)
how many ____________________________ are there? she wanted to know.
(#20: plural of 4/12/14/17/18)
No one knows for sure…but it’s ________________ all the way down.
(#21: same as 20)
______________________________________________________________________
Kirsten's Mad Lib:
No more __________________. But then who will ___________ for
(#1 noun, plural) (#2 verb)
us? Who will ______________ for us? Who will remind us of our relationship
(#3 verb)
with the _______________? Who will _____________ us our ________________?
(#4 noun) (#5 verb) (#6 noun, plural)
The one about the ___________ and the _______________, for instance.
(#7 noun) (#8 noun, plural)
_________ it. It’s yours. Do with it what you will. Tell it to your
(#9 verb)
__________________. Turn it into a ___________. __________ it.
(#10 noun, plural) (#11 noun) (#12 verb)
But don’t say in the years to come you would have __________________ your
(#13 verb, past tense)
differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve _____________________
(#14 verb, past tense)
it now.