Graduation Speech: Challenges Of Being Tall

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Know i'm pretty sure the majority of you guys in this room like basketball and some of you guys love when they dunk and do all those crazy tricks in through the net and some of you might dream of being tall to dunk like a basketball pro or imagine you never have to ask som buddie to reach something because of how tall you are .know that may seem pretty cool but i'm not here to talk to you about the good part about him being tall and i'm sorry for those of you who dreamed to be super tall but i'm going to tell you why 90 percent of his life was not fun at all.

.Know to start of this speech I will talk about the challenges of being as tall as Robert 2nd I will talk about how his life is very different than ours and to end it of I will tell you about Robets life.

Roberts life wasn't anything like yours and mine and know let me tell you why.You probably
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his shoe size is probably the size of your whole arm .Know you might think that's impossible but what can I say he is the tallest .Know I don't know if throughout this whole speech i actually mentioned his really height so here it is Robert was 8 11 and 1 and a half times larger than they average male height and with that incredible height he earned the title of tallest human species ever to step foot on this planet..

I hope you learned a little bit about Robert pershing wadlow and enjoyed listening to my speech I talked about the challenges of being as tall as Robert how his height affects his life and some more interesting things about Roberts life . Know it's time time to rap so i'm going to leave you with one last sentence that I don't want you to forget by Robert wadlow your the steering wheel in the car and their may be passengers in the car but that can't change your direction and your

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