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have you ever heard of losing your name
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sounds weird boo Trey Bohemian even when
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you think about it losing your name
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should be impossible because your name
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has been with you this whole time when I
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was 13
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I lost my name good morning the audience
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fellow contestants and the judges
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I am chef Imani of global press toffee
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school and as you can hear from my last
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sentence I do have a name
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I've been called chiffon my whole life
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when I lived my first 5 years here in
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Indonesia I was shocked when my parents
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decided to up and leave all the way to
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Hong Kong a foreign place where I was
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forced to habituate myself I was shocked
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when I made a name for myself carried on
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with my studies made new friends I was
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still shafa when my parents decided that
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we had way enough of Hong Kong and that
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I was supposed to come back to a place I
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used to call home it seemed so foreign
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to me I suddenly did not know what that
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name meant any more I lost my name
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frankly speaking I did not know what I
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was doing here I was falling behind in
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my studies trust me when I say this that
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the curriculum here is way harder I was
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falling behind on everything I thought I
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could excel in I needed to find a
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constant and quick so I turned to one
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thing I knew how to do best reading one
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book and one author in particular have
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any of you heard of Mitch Albom show of
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hands if you have that's great to hear
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Mitch Albom is most known for his book
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called Tuesdays with Maurey which I
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assure you sits at the top of every
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bookshelf in every bookstore you go to
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but the book that saved my life is not
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that popularized by the people
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yeah rather his debut book the five
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people you meet in heaven now I'm not
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really the type of person to challenge
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my spiritual being like that but the
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five people you meet in heaven taught me
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three morals that took me out of the
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dark place I was in first it's faith the
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main character Eddie had to go through
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an endless purgatory filled with his
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nightmares and encountering people he
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belittled and impacted him the most
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after he died honestly I wouldn't know
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what I would do if I were in that
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position I would break down I would cry
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it's like all my nightmares fabricated
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into untwisted twisted reality I would
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panic but with EDIUS faith in himself
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and his God he succeeded he succeeded in
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finding the afterlife
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the most notorious author arguably
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Victor Hugo battled with the discussion
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of faith in his infamous book lamb is
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Arab he said that faith is one of the
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most powerful methods no two men it's
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just a question of whether or not you
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will use that faith and so with faith I
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learned to be faithful to myself and
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have confidence in myself for the second
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world
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I learned to be optimistic and positive
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now Eddie might not look it at first you
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wouldn't exactly associated ISM and
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positivity with Eddie but as he meets
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more and more people he becomes more and
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more optimistic and positive I think
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it's such a wonderful thing that Mitch
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Albom focused his character development
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from turning to a negative person to
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somebody who actually looks forward and
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believes that he can reach the afterlife
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now we all know the infamous saying
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positivity or optimism is the most
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important thing I digress I don't agree
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with that optimism and positivity is not
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the most important thing
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but you need optimism and positivity to
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succeed and with that I learned to be
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optimistic of my future here I learned
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to be optimistic of making new friends
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and actually catching up with my studies
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for the third Morel I learned to trust
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my family and my friends let me tell you
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this first and foremost as a person who
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only trusted herself and herself only
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trusting other people and letting other
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people in was the hardest obstacle of
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all
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because I believe in myself and I
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believe that only I could make the right
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decisions but that was a mistake I
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learned from Eddie as he trusted his
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friends and family and the people who
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impacted him that's sometimes it's okay
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to let your walls down sometimes it's
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okay to let them crumble and sometimes
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it's okay to be weak and vulnerable
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sometimes it's okay to bare yourself to
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the world and believe in those around
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you on balance the book the five people
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you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom saved
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my life because of three reasons first
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it's a theme of faith second is its
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theme of optimism and positivity and
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third is its theme of trusting my
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friends and my family let me introduce
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myself again because first impressions
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are important after all hello I am chef
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Imani I love to read I love to write I
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love my friends and my family I love
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studying but most of all I love myself
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and I love the myself that is standing
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in front of you now if there is one
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thing I can say to all those who are
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looking for their names and my
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thirteen-year-old naive stupidly lost
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self is that even if the world is
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horribly horribly dark and seems like
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there's no place for you
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we'll always be a place for you to stay
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thank you
