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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short

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Speaker 1: in our show notes. Thank you. Finbo. Far away in

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Speaker 1: the deep blue ocean, there lived a little blue whale

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Speaker 1: named Finbo. Even though he was called little, he was

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Speaker 1: not little by any means. The baby Finbone was very

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Speaker 1: much bigger than all of his friends. His favorite pastime

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Speaker 1: was playing hide and seek with his friends in and

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Speaker 1: around the rocky areas. But there was one thing which

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Speaker 1: disappointed him all the time. That was whenever they played

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Speaker 1: hide and seek, Finbo ended up being on the losing end.

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Speaker 1: No matter how hard he tried to hide, his friends

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Speaker 1: would find him in no time. Since Finbo was so big,

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Speaker 1: it was very easy for his friends to find him

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Speaker 1: because he stuck out from behind wherever he was trying

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Speaker 1: to hide, and when his turn came, Finbo could never

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Speaker 1: find his tiny friends. They were so tiny that they

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Speaker 1: could hide anywhere. Sometimes they hid behind Finbo's own tail,

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Speaker 1: but Finbo could never see them until they came out

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Speaker 1: and showed themselves. Therefore, Finbo had to spend the whole

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Speaker 1: day searching for them, and this happened almost all the time.

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Speaker 1: When Finbo got tired of searching, he gave up the

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Speaker 1: game and went to his mother, whimpering, Oh, I can't

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Speaker 1: do this all the time. I can't stand it anymore,

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Speaker 1: Finbo complained, Why, my darling, what's wrong? His mother asked, Mama,

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Speaker 1: Whenever I hide, they find me right away, But whenever

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Speaker 1: they hied, I can't find them, even if I search

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Speaker 1: all day long. Why, Mama, why am I so big?

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Speaker 1: Why can't I be tiny like my friends? Finbo asked sadly.

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Speaker 1: But darling, you are a whale. You are different from

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Speaker 1: all the fish in the sea. We are the biggest

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Speaker 1: when you grow up, said his mother, even bigger. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be any bigger. I'm tired of

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Speaker 1: being big, Finbo said crossly. No, Finbo, you must be

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Speaker 1: proud of, said his mother. Proud of what being big?

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Speaker 1: Finbo asked. His mother started explaining Finbo, listen to me carefully.

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Speaker 1: We have many things to be proud of. First of all,

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Speaker 1: we are not fish. We are mammals who live in

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Speaker 1: the water. We don't lay eggs like other fish. You

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Speaker 1: were born like a baby and not hatched from an egg. Baby.

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Speaker 1: Wails drink milk from their mothers, just like the children

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Speaker 1: on land do. And we have hair on our bodies too.

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Speaker 1: We are the loudest animals on earth. No one else

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Speaker 1: We have no enemies, and all the others are frightened

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Speaker 1: of us. You need not shrink away from fear with anyone.

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Speaker 1: His mother tried to convince him, but it was hard

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Speaker 1: for him to understand. But Mama, but even if all

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Speaker 1: of that is true, I still can't play hide and seek.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be big and different anymore. Fimbo

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Speaker 1: started whimpering again. Finbo, everyone should be happy about who

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Speaker 1: he is and what he is. You'll see one day.

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Speaker 1: What would it bring you being who you are? Said

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Speaker 1: mother Blue Whale. On the following day, Finbo and his

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Speaker 1: friends went to the rocky area to play hide and seek. Finbo,

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Speaker 1: shall we go out there beyond the rocky area, asked

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Speaker 1: too far, said Finbo. Finbo, are you scared, they asked. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not scared, but I'm not going because my mother

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Speaker 1: Finbo calmly. Hey, big Finbo is scared, it seems. Let's

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Speaker 1: go there and show him how brave we are, said

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Speaker 1: all of his tiny friends, laughing at Thimbo. My little friends,

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Speaker 1: As my mother says, being brave doesn't mean that you

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Speaker 1: said Finbo. Oh, Fimbo, what's the use of being big?

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Speaker 1: Then both friends laughed at him and swam away. Finbo

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Speaker 1: felt very lonely, no one to talk to, no one

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Speaker 1: to play with. He wandered around sadly. But a little

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Speaker 1: later he heard shrieking voices coming through the water. It

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Speaker 1: sounded very familiar to him. He swam toward the sound.

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Speaker 1: Quickly it was his tiny little friends darting through the water,

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Speaker 1: They rushed forward and hid behind Fimbo's tail. The next moment,

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Speaker 1: The moment he saw Thimbo in front of him, his

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Speaker 1: The big bad Shark took one sharp look at Bimbo

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe their eyes. They were amazed to see how

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Speaker 1: friend Thimbo. They were very proud of Fimbo. All of

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Speaker 1: They apologized to Fimbo for teasing him. Fimbo welcomed all

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Speaker 1: the thanks humbly. My friends, said one of the little fishes.

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Speaker 1: Fimbo is wise. He told us not to go into danger.

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Speaker 1: Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.

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Speaker 1: We learned that to day, from now on, we should

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Speaker 1: not go so far away to play. All of them agreed, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: Thimbo is a very good friend. Even though we teased him,

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Speaker 1: he came forward to help us at once without being

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Speaker 1: angry with us. They said, my friends, you need not

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Speaker 1: you have never seen. It would be much more interesting

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Speaker 1: than swimming far away, said Finbo. He swam up close

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Speaker 1: to the surface of the sea with his friends, and

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Speaker 1: then he asked his friends to sit on his head

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Speaker 1: one by one, and when he spurted his fountain, they

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Speaker 1: were shot out of the water into the beautiful world above.

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Speaker 1: They saw the sky, birds, sun clouds, ships and far

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Speaker 1: away lands. They cheered with Joe. It was an amazing

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Speaker 1: sight to the little fish who had never seen anything

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Speaker 1: other than the things under the sea. Binbo, you are

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Speaker 1: love you very much. They circled around him and hugged him.

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Speaker 1: Binbo was very happy that he was big and different,

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Speaker 1: because he could be of great use to his friends.

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