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+class TextParser
+	attr_reader :text, :word_counts
+	def initialize(file)
+		@text = IO.read(file)
+		@word_counts = {}
+	end
+
+	def remove_newlines
+		text.gsub(/\s+/, ' ').strip
+	end
+
+	def parsed_text
+		remove_newlines.split(" ").map do |string|
+			string.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9'-]/i, '').downcase
+		end
+	end
+
+	def count_words
+		parsed_text.each do |word|
+			if word_counts.key?(word)
+				word_counts[word] += 1
+			else
+				word_counts[word] = 1
+			end
+		end
+	end
+
+	def sorted_counts
+		word_counts.sort_by {|_key, value| -value}
+	end
+
+	def parse
+		count_words
+		sorted_counts.each do |pair|
+			puts "#{pair[1]} - #{pair[0]}"
+		end
+	end
+end
+
+
+
+p = TextParser.new("speech.txt")
+p.parse
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