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Identify and list the past tense verbs from the story (examples: was, rolled, hurried, fell, kept, opened, poured, ducked, pushed, pulled, ran, arrived, greeted, smiled).
Activity: Rewrite the passage in present tense.
By: Cultural Desk Staff
In the hyper-documented world of modern celebrity, where every airport arrival and coffee run is captured by a telephoto lens, it is rare to find a moment of genuine, unscripted humanity. Yet, that is precisely what the internet was served last Tuesday when lifestyle icon and emerging film producer Juan Gotoh was caught in the rain during what was supposed to be a low-key afternoon in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
For those unfamiliar, Juan Gotoh—the 34-year-old son of legendary jazz musician Akira Gotoh and supermodel Elena Vasquez—has spent the last three years carefully curating a persona of meticulous control. His Instagram feed is a grid of minimalist Japanese aesthetics and Brutalist architecture. His public appearances are timed to the minute. But as the old saying goes, "Man plans, and God laughs." In this case, God laughed with a 40% chance of scattered showers.