18) speaks
19) meet
20)smoke
21)not to go
22)has been waiting
23) have I talked to
24) are expected
25)that you be
26)should have told
"String-along songs about razor blade" were the author's narration of an advertisement on razor blades.
"I" or "Me" are used for first person.
Converted to Christianity and had to leave their old traditions behind because those traditions were seen as “barbaric”