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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This is

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Speaker 1: a special episode to give a shout out to some

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Speaker 1: friends who have filled out our survey. I would like

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Speaker 1: to say hello to Cayton, Gutso, Sinai, Sara and Zilah,

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Speaker 1: Jade Shepherd, Scarlett Sawyer and Archer Peyton, Marie and Paige, Louise,

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Speaker 1: Alina and Ilah, Armando, Perez, Toa Goot Major and Juniper,

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Speaker 1: Poppy and Ella, Coben and Marlowe, Oliver and Cohen Harper,

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Speaker 1: Joe December, Sander, Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Hass and Sadie has.

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Speaker 1: Vivian, Isabella and Landon Matthew, Fiona and finn Na, Hannah, Lydia, Arion,

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Speaker 1: Caitlin and Nova, lacn Meghan Odin, Riley and Matteo, Kkoka,

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Speaker 1: Elsin N, Gertie, Elliott and Rachel, Dia, go Vind, Sama

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Speaker 1: and Sam Rainy, Grace and Willow Rose, Sam O'Grady, Ella

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Speaker 1: Rain and Seely, Lucy, Sadie and Theodore, Drake and Jocelyn,

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Speaker 1: Monet and Mellencia Macy from the UK, Naomi and Nico Lopez,

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Speaker 1: Eluisa and Francine, Natasha and Leanna, Alamo and Santiago Brushel

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Speaker 1: and Chica, Natalie z and Johan James Pinkett from Mason, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: Gargey and Amberlyn Moren. As a Holidays season is quickly approaching,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to share an extra story with you. This

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Speaker 1: is a story I had never heard of before, but

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Speaker 1: I liked how the birds were willing to help each

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Speaker 1: other when one of them was in need.

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Speaker 3: The birds Christmas chickadee, de d chickadee D chicken Drup

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Speaker 3: chrup chree, chirrup, chirrup, che gee, dearly dearly dearly.

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Speaker 1: Wrap tap tap tap tap, went the woodpecker. Missus chickadee

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Speaker 1: may speak first, friends, began missus chickadee. Why do you

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Speaker 1: suppose I called you together because it's the day before Christmas?

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Speaker 1: Twittered snow bunting, And you're going to get you a

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Speaker 1: Christmas party, tripped the robin, and you want all of

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Speaker 1: us to come, said downey woodpecker. Hooray, three cheers for

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Speaker 1: missus chickadee. Hush, said missus chickadee. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: all about it. Tomorrow is Christmas Day, but I don't

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Speaker 1: want to give a party. Chee chee, chee, cried robin,

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Speaker 1: rusty breast.

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Speaker 3: Chee chee chee.

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Speaker 1: Just listen to my little plan, said missus chickadee. For indeed,

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Speaker 1: I want you all to help. How many remember thistle goldfinch,

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Speaker 1: the happy little fellow who floated over the meadows through

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Speaker 1: the summer and fall. Chirrup, che chee, chirrup che chee.

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Speaker 1: I do, sang the robin. How he loved to sway

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Speaker 1: on thistletops, Yes, said downey woodpecker. And didn't he sing

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Speaker 1: all about blue skies and sunshine.

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Speaker 3: And happy days with his sweet.

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Speaker 1: Sweet, sweet sweet A twitter witter witter witter witter, weird

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Speaker 1: wee Terry Lee, Terry Lee said snow bunting. We've all

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Speaker 1: heard of thistle goldfinch. But what can he have to

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Speaker 1: do with your Christmas party? He's way down south now

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Speaker 1: and wouldn't care if you gave a dozen parties. Oh

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Speaker 1: but he isn't He is right here in these very woods.

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Speaker 1: Why you don't mean indeed, I do mean every single word.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday I was flitting about among the trees, pecking at

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Speaker 1: a dead branch here and a bit of moss there,

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Speaker 1: And before I knew it, I found found myself away

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Speaker 1: over at the other side of the woods. Chickadee de

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Speaker 1: de chickadee de d I sang as I turned my

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Speaker 1: bill toward home. Just then I heard the saddest little

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Speaker 3: Out, dearie me, dearie me.

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Speaker 1: And there on the sunny side of a branch perched

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Speaker 1: a lonesome bit of yellowish down. I went up to

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Speaker 1: see what it was and found dear little Thistle Goldfinch.

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Speaker 1: He was very glad to see me, and soon told

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Speaker 1: his short story. Through the summer, Papa and Mamma Goldfinch

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Speaker 1: and all the brothers and sisters had a fine time

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Speaker 1: singing together, fluttering over thistletops or floating through the balmy air.

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Speaker 1: But when little Jack Frost walked through the trees, Papa

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Speaker 1: Goldfinch said, it is high time we went south. All

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Speaker 1: were ready, but Thistle. He wanted to stay through the winter,

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Speaker 1: and begged so hard that Papa Goldfinch said, try it,

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Speaker 1: at night that's warm. Then off they flew, and Thistle

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Speaker 1: was alone for a while. He was happy. The sun

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Speaker 1: shone warm through the middle of the day, and there

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Speaker 1: were fields and meadows full of seeds. You all, remember

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Speaker 1: how sweetly he sang for us. Then, but by and by,

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Speaker 1: the cold north wind came whistling through the trees, and

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Speaker 1: chilly Thistle woke up one gray morning to find the

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Speaker 1: now that the heavy snows have come, the poor little

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Speaker 1: fellow is almost starved. And if he doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: Missus chickadee paused a minute. The birds were so still

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Speaker 1: one could hear the pine trees whisper. Then she went on.

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Speaker 1: I comforted the poor little fellow as best I could,

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Speaker 1: and showed him where to find a few seeds. Then

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Speaker 1: I flew home, for it was bedtime. I tucked my

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Speaker 1: head under my wing to keep it warm, and thought

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Speaker 1: and thought and thought, and here's my plan. We chickadees

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Speaker 1: have a nice warm home here in the spruce trees,

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Speaker 1: with their thick, heavy boughs to shut out the snow

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Speaker 1: and cold. There is plenty of room, so Thistle could

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Speaker 1: sleep here all winter. We could let him perch on

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Speaker 1: a branch when we check. These would nestle around him

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Speaker 1: until he was as warm as a lovely summertime. These

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Speaker 1: cones are so full of seeds that we could spare

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Speaker 1: him a good many. And I think that you robins

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Speaker 1: might let him come over to your pines someday and

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Speaker 1: share your seeds. Downy woodpecker must keep his eyes open

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Speaker 1: as he hammers the trees, and if he spies a

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Speaker 1: supply of seeds, he will let us know at once.

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Speaker 1: Snow Bunting is only a visitor, so I don't expect

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Speaker 1: him to help, but I wanted him to hear my

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Speaker 1: plan with the rest of you. Now you will try,

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Speaker 1: won't you. Everyone? Cheer up, Cheer up, dear lee. Indeed

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Speaker 1: we'll try. Let's begin right away. Don't wait until tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Who will go and find thistle? I will chirped Robin,

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Speaker 1: rusty breass, And off he flew to the place which

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Speaker 1: missus Chickadee had told of at the other side of

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Speaker 1: the wood. There, sure enough he found thistle goldfish, sighing,

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Speaker 1: dearie me, dearie me, the winter is so cold, and

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Speaker 1: I'm here all alone. Cheer up, chee chee, piped the robin.

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Speaker 1: Cheer up, cheer up. I'm here, I'm here, and I

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Speaker 1: mean to stay. What if the winter is drear? Cheer up,

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Speaker 1: cheer up anyway, but the snow is so deep, said Thistle,

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Speaker 1: And the robin replied, soon the snows will be over

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Speaker 1: and gone, run and rippled away. What's the use of

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Speaker 1: looking forlorn? Cheer up, cheer up, by say? Then he

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Speaker 1: told Thistle all their plants. And wasn't Thistle surprised?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 1: He just couldn't believe a word of it till they

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Speaker 1: reached missus Chickadees, and she said it was all true.

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Speaker 1: They fed him and warmed him, then settled themselves where

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Speaker 1: a good night's rest. Christmas morning they were chirping gaily,

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Speaker 1: and Thistle was trying to remember the happy song he

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Speaker 1: sang in the summer time. When there came a whir

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Speaker 1: of wings as snow Bunting flew down tirily tirilye tire

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Speaker 1: Lee said he can you fly a little way?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yes, replied Thistle, I think I could fly a long way.

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Speaker 1: Come on, then, said snow Bunting. Every one who wants

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Speaker 1: a Christmas dinner follow me. That was every word he

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Speaker 3: So what could they.

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Speaker 1: Do but follow? Soon they came to the edge of

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Speaker 1: the wood, and then to a farmhouse. Snow Bunting flew

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Speaker 1: straight up to the piazza, and there stood a dear

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Speaker 1: little girl in a warm hood and cloak, with a

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Speaker 1: pail of bird seed on her arm and a dish

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Speaker 1: of bread crumbs in her hand. As they flew down,

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Speaker 1: she said, and here are some more birdies who have

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Speaker 1: come for a Christmas dinner. Of course you shall have some,

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Speaker 1: you dear little things. And she laughed merrily to see

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Speaker 1: them die for the crumbs. After they had finished eating.

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Speaker 1: Elsie that was the little girl's name, said Now, little birds,

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Speaker 1: it is going to be a cold winter. You would

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Speaker 1: better come here every day to get your dinner. I'll

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Speaker 1: always be glad to see you. Chirrup chee chee, chirrup

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Speaker 1: chee chee. Thank you, thank you, cried the robins. Tara Lee,

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Speaker 1: Tarry Lee, Tarry Lee, thank you, thank you, twittered snow bunting.

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Speaker 3: Chickadee ed, chickadee edy, chickadee ed.

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Speaker 1: How kind you are, sang the chickadees. And thistle goldfinch.

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Speaker 1: Yes you remember Bert his summer saw, or he say,

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Speaker 1: as they flew away, Sweet sweet, sweet sweet.

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Speaker 2: A twitter witter witter, witter witter, wheetweet side, good night,

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Speaker 2: tween sweet tie.

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Speaker 3: Cal and.

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Speaker 1: Spry coon ginrangant holy.

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Speaker 3: And sots and and sidid night.

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Speaker 2: Calm, spry slan n.

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Speaker 3: Night Sidlin night, call me.

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Speaker 1: Roundon.

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Speaker 2: Heard the chant coldly.

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Speaker 3: So ten the emd

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Speaker 1: Say ben leav