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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop do as

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you were brought to you by con artists They're not

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to be trusted if you catch our grip Are checking

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this passage Scamming nuns No limit how connor swindled On

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scampi in a minor people know shame like what All

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right well how would you change The bolo underlined portion

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of the passage if it all in the brink and

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here the pencil and on all right we've been hearing

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this word brink all our lives What is a brink

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anyway We ever seen and bring Are there signs anywhere

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indicating when we're approaching one like on the highway Do

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bring skin a phone All right well the shortened sweet

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version a brink is simply the edge of an area

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of land right before there's a steep drop off In

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other words you really don't want to go over one

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unless you're an insane thrill seeker or have some kind

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of death wish or at least a parachute depends on

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the brink Now let's take a gander at the sentence

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from the passage in which brink appears there's no limit

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to how low con artists will go the swindle victims

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out of their money often targeting the elderly the terminally

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ill homeowners in the brink of losing their homes Okay

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well since we've already established what a brink is seems

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to be pretty diff a call to be in one

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in fact we're so clueless about how to even visualize

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such a thing that was going to show two seconds

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of blank screen and we're back So yeah no way

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this phrase is ok as is so we can eliminate

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option a but it the seat of the brake No

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they're not home Owners of the brink like the brink

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is some sort of ritzy homeowners associations of the is

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definitely out I haven't even about the ring about khun

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b used refer to something that is near something else

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but we're talking about homer's who are right on the

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edge of losing their homes on a safe viewing distance

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away from that break So the best answer here is

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be on the brink Those poor unsuspecting homeowners are right

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here in a ring on the edge of eviction gazing

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into the yawning abyss of homelessness Okay well we might

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be on the brink of becoming a beat poet but

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yeah we're gonna pull it back a scotch before things 00:02:18.083 --> [endTime] get ugly Whoa

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