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Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's stories brought to us by December and

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Speaker 1: Lee By Hey guys, they sent me an awesome idea

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to give you a special hello. My

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Speaker 1: name is Mr Jim, um dad, a husband, and we

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Speaker 1: have three kids who you know, we're always talking about

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Speaker 1: screen time and managing that, and so we've really found

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Speaker 1: that these stories, like Kid Short Stories or Kids Animal Stories,

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Speaker 1: these podcasts have been super helpful for us and thousands

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Speaker 1: of families all around the world, and so we love

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Speaker 1: sharing these stories with you to help manage screen time

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Speaker 1: and really promote creativity and imagination. Well, enough of that,

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Speaker 1: are you guys ready for today's story? Me too? Let's

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Speaker 1: go alright, December, are you ready to head back for

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Speaker 1: your surgery? Okay, I gotta choose to be brave. One, two, three, Yes,

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Speaker 1: let's go, said December victoriously. Today was a big day

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Speaker 1: that she had been a little nervous about for a

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Speaker 1: long time. It was the day that she was going

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Speaker 1: to have surgery on her eye. Her eye had something

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Speaker 1: that only a doctor could fix. And I know doctors

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Speaker 1: can sometimes be scary, You're right, Yeah, whenever I go

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Speaker 1: to the doctor, i'm a little I'm I'm honestly, I'm

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Speaker 1: nervous every time. Mr Jim yep, even Mr Jim is

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Speaker 1: nervous when he goes to the doctor. But doctors are

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Speaker 1: pretty awesome. Do you know why. Yeah, because our grown ups,

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Speaker 1: our parents, and doctors their job is to keep us

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Speaker 1: safe and to do the best things for us. And

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Speaker 1: so December she needed the surgery on her eye, and

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Speaker 1: even though it's a little scary, it was the best

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Speaker 1: thing for her. And you're not gonna believe what happens.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing. But that's at the end of the story.

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Speaker 1: So let's get there. Well, December headed back for surgery

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Speaker 1: and there were all kinds of tubes and wires and

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Speaker 1: all kinds of different things that were attached to her.

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Speaker 1: And it's really important for the doctors to know exactly

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Speaker 1: what your body is doing while they're about to go

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Speaker 1: into surgery, because they need to make sure that your

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Speaker 1: blood has the right oxygen. Needs to know that, ah,

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Speaker 1: that you're breathing well, and that everything is just right,

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Speaker 1: that your heart is beating at the right time. Everything

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Speaker 1: is perfect, and then it's time to go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: You see, when you go into surgery, you go to sleep.

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Speaker 1: The doctors do all the work and you just get

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Speaker 1: to sit back and just dream about the most amazing

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Speaker 1: adventures that you've ever gone on. Well, as soon as

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Speaker 1: December closed her eyes and went to sleep, it felt

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Speaker 1: like it was just a split second or a minute,

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Speaker 1: and then she felt her grown ups, her parents, tapping

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Speaker 1: her on her arms, saying, December, December, it's time to

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Speaker 1: wake up. You're all done and you're all better. She

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Speaker 1: carefully opened up her eyes, but the one eye that

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Speaker 1: bit of a patch on it, kind of like a

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Speaker 1: pirate patch. So the first thing out of December's mouth

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Speaker 1: was I'm hungry. Everybody in the room laughed because December

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Speaker 1: was so hilarious. Well, back at home, her best friend

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Speaker 1: Levi was planning a party for her with all of

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Speaker 1: greeted by Levi and all the friends. They were so

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Speaker 1: happy to see December back home. Wow, thanks guys so much.

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Speaker 1: You're the best friends in the whole wide world. Isn't

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Speaker 1: it great to have really good friends? Yeah? I love

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Speaker 1: having good friends and that they can be there for

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Speaker 1: or is not feeling well or has a rough day,

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Speaker 1: or maybe call them and face time them and tell

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Speaker 1: them that you missed them, or all kinds of fun things.

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Speaker 1: There's all kinds of creative ways, maybe drawing a picture. Well,

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Speaker 1: it was time for Levi and all the friends to

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Speaker 1: You get to curl up in your bed with your

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Speaker 1: just relaxing. M it's December laid down. She felt sleepy

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Speaker 1: perfect and everything was good. But she almost felt kind

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Speaker 1: must be just you know that that feeling will wear

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Speaker 1: off soon. Levi came over later that day and they

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Speaker 1: wanted to build a fort together. That was one of

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Speaker 1: of cool places to make pretend stories. In hey, December,

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Speaker 1: said Levi. He had just gotten there and December was

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Speaker 1: already for their fun. Perfect. Well, I have all our

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Speaker 1: to make the most amazingly at big fort, said December.

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Speaker 1: They got to work immediately, and pretty soon they had

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Speaker 1: created the most amazing epic giantist blanket fort of all time.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever made a blanket for it before? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I love blanket for it's I think you've heard me

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Speaker 1: talk about them before, But blanket forts are so cool.

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Speaker 1: I wish I wasn't so big. I kind of miss

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Speaker 1: being smaller that I can fit inside of those blanket forts,

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Speaker 1: because when you get bigger, it's kind of hard to

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Speaker 1: And maybe I need bigger chairs and a bigger fort. Maybe. Well,

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Speaker 1: December and leave I were having a great time, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden they realized that they had stumbled

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Speaker 1: into some kind of secret cave that led down to

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Speaker 1: don't know. This secret passage was never here before. December

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Speaker 1: and had never noticed a secret passage that went down

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Speaker 1: normal door. But this was something different. All right, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of dark down there, said LEVI. December peered around

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Speaker 1: the corner and said, wait, it's not that dark. Come on.

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Speaker 1: December led the way down deeper and deeper towards the basement.

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Speaker 1: They crawled and pretty soon, LEVI couldn't see anything. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is so dark, what are you talking about? I

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Speaker 1: can see just fine. Then December blinked her eyes a

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Speaker 1: few times and realized, I'm seeing night vision right now?

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Speaker 1: What said LEVI, I'm serious. December couldn't believe it. She

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Speaker 1: I believe you that it's pitch black down here, but

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Speaker 1: I can see just fine. It's like I have night

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Speaker 1: vision goggles built into my Oh my goodness, Holy smokes.

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Speaker 1: I think the doctors might have I don't know if

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Speaker 1: me some kind of night vision. This is amazing, Levi.

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Speaker 1: join December the rest of the time in their basement journey.

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Speaker 1: But this was just the beginning of December's night vision adventures. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that surgery had somehow transformed her eyes into having night vision. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I wish I had night vision too. That would be

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Speaker 1: so cool to be able to walk around in a

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Speaker 1: dark place and see everything. Oh man, I'm a little

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Speaker 1: jealous of December's eyes, but I'm pretty excited to hear

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Speaker 1: about the adventures ahead for December and LEVI Wow, what

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Speaker 1: an amazing adventure. I'm so glad that she showed is

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Speaker 1: her eye and even gave her a bonus superpower. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you next time. Bye, great job, you listened all

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Speaker 1: the way to the end and you know what time

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Speaker 1: it is. It's time for kid shout out. I want

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Speaker 1: without you, my friends. Will you have a super duper

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