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I had already spent 2 hours but still couldn&#8217;t speak fluently.  To become a good public speaker really require lots of hard work and practice, unless you are born with this talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was preparing my ice breaker speech for the toastmaster meeting tomorrow. I found that it is quite hard to condense all the material into 5 minutes. There are so many things I want to talk about myself. I had picked school as the mean to describe my character. 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