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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to say happy birthday to Savannah, who is celebrating her birthday.

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Speaker 2: On November twenty first.

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Speaker 1: A very happy birthday to you. I hope your day

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Speaker 1: is very special. This is part two of our story

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Speaker 1: about Red the Transfer Student. If you listen to the

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Speaker 1: first part, you know that Red is going to her

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Speaker 1: new school for the first time. She has moved to

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Speaker 1: a new place and had to isolate, so she is

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Speaker 1: starting late and not looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: Her first day of school.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't like the colors she sees around her, and

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Speaker 1: her trip on the bus is awful.

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Speaker 2: When Red arrives.

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Speaker 1: At school, she goes to the principal's office and then

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Speaker 1: finally to her new classroom. Red finds her seat near

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Speaker 1: Charlie and then later needs to get up and introduce

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Speaker 1: herself to the class. This is when things start to

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Speaker 1: go wrong The Transfer Student Part two. Do you remember

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Speaker 1: a time when you blurted out a word that you

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Speaker 1: weren't supposed to or a word spoken at an inappropriate time?

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Speaker 1: How did it feel and how did people react? Red

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Speaker 1: knew she wasn't supposed to say the word that there

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Speaker 1: was a carefully crafted story about where.

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Speaker 2: She was from. It just came out.

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Speaker 1: She sometimes just couldn't help herself. But now it was

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Speaker 1: too late, and the classroom was full of laughter.

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Speaker 2: She said it.

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Speaker 1: Still, she couldn't understand why everyone was laughing at her.

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Speaker 1: Literally everyone was laughing. Even the teacher had a smirk

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Speaker 1: on her face. It's like they didn't believe her. But

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Speaker 1: she always told the truth. Mars is a place, well,

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Speaker 1: there is a town in Pennsylvania called Mars.

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Speaker 2: At least.

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Speaker 1: Her mother always told her to be honest, that honesty

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Speaker 1: was the best policy. Her father used to always repeat

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Speaker 1: so much that Red's eyes would start to roll each

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Speaker 1: time she heard it. That honesty is the first chapter

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Speaker 1: in the Book of Wisdom or something like that. And

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Speaker 1: yet here I am telling the truth and all I

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Speaker 1: get is laughter in return. Ugh, Now, class settled down.

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Speaker 1: Missus Johnson yelled, I'm sure Red is just telling a joke,

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Speaker 1: isn't that right?

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Speaker 2: Red?

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, mumbled Red, whose face was so rosy that

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Speaker 1: it felt like it was on fire. I like to

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Speaker 1: tell jokes. There is no place called Mars except in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: Everyone should just forget about it, she added, sheepishly. Okay, class,

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Speaker 1: we'll get another opportunity to get to know our new

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Speaker 1: classmate during story sharey time tomorrow, missus Johnson said with

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Speaker 1: a smirk, maybe we can all tell funny stories. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's open our math textbooks to page twenty five and

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Speaker 1: continue where we left off from last time.

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Speaker 2: The class collectively.

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Speaker 1: Groaned and all eyes left Red as they all opened

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Speaker 1: their textbooks as dramatically as they possibly could. Red opened

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Speaker 1: her math book and realized that it was all problems

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Speaker 1: she had solved before. And though math was Red's favorite subject,

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Speaker 1: she found herself daydreaming and not listening.

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Speaker 2: To the teacher at all.

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Speaker 1: She was thinking back to her life life at her

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Speaker 1: former school, her friends, the grayness, the glorious red soil,

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Speaker 1: the pancakes. Red squirmed as she daydreamed, why do we

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Speaker 1: have to sit in these uncomfortable seats? At her former school,

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Speaker 1: they would all sit on comfy cushions in a circle

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Speaker 1: as a team. She would always sit beside her Ratio

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Speaker 1: and Solomon, her best friends in the world.

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Speaker 2: They were in every.

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Speaker 1: Class together would work out the problems together and play

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Speaker 1: in the outer rings together. The sound of Charlie's sneezing

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Speaker 1: watery mucus into the front of his t shirt broke

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Speaker 1: her from her reverie yach. At lunch, Red made her

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Speaker 1: way through the sea of kids crowding the hallways to

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Speaker 1: She could feel the other student's eyes on her and

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Speaker 1: When she arrived at this new place, she sat alone,

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Speaker 1: that is until, without saying a word, Rachel sat in.

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Speaker 1: How she managed to sit there without spilling her lunch

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Speaker 1: full of disgusting looking food, which Red guest was the

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Speaker 1: chicken nuggets, corn and pears that the principal mentioned earlier

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Speaker 2: On the side was a.

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Speaker 1: Huge cup of hot tea which looked like it might

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Speaker 2: Be careful, Red said, an alarm.

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Speaker 1: Rachel said nothing, and, judging by the look of concentration

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Speaker 1: she sat down and continued reading without looking up. Rachel asked,

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Speaker 1: you really from Mars, because if you are, I.

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Speaker 2: Would totally believe it.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, yes, Rachel stuttered, Mars, Pennsylvania. She quietly added, hm hm,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. We don't get many new faces around here.

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Speaker 1: Most people were born here and few people come here

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Speaker 1: on purpose, Rachel said, And we especially don't see many

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Speaker 1: with as keen a fashion sense as yours keen fashion sense.

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Speaker 1: What's wrong with my clothes? I'll tell you these were

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Speaker 1: the most popular fashions on UH in my hometown, said Red, indignantly,

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Speaker 1: not looking up from her book. Rachel replied, Oh, there

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Speaker 1: is nothing wrong with your clothes. They are just different,

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Speaker 1: is all. What's wrong with being different?

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Speaker 2: Asked Red.

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Speaker 1: Nothing being different is great, but not everyone thinks the

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Speaker 1: same way because they are well, they are different, Rachel said, ugh.

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Speaker 1: Looking up briefly, Rachel asked, what's that you're eating for lunch? Hancakes?

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Speaker 1: Glorious pancakes. My mother makes me pancakes at least once

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Speaker 1: a day. Red said, with a sparkle in her eye.

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Speaker 1: You're lucky. My mother doesn't know how to cook. One

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Speaker 1: day she tried to cook spaghetti and almost burn the

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Speaker 1: but I get tired of nut butter sandwiches. She added, Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess we'd better get back to class, Red said,

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Speaker 1: in an attempt to change the subject. Red walked behind Rachel,

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Speaker 1: amazed that she could continue to stare at her book

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Speaker 1: next class, English with mister mccaskell. All right, mister mccaskell said,

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Speaker 1: we are going to start a new novel called The

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Speaker 1: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell. But first

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Speaker 1: I have a question for you. What did one ocean

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Speaker 1: say to the other ocean?

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Speaker 2: He asked.

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Speaker 1: The class groaned, Oh, nothing.

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Speaker 2: They just waved.

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Speaker 1: Much to the astonishment of the whole class, mister mccaskell included,

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Speaker 1: Red laughed out loud. Everyone stared at her in silence. Ugh.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the day was uneventful. Classes came and went,

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Speaker 1: No one asked her where she came from, no one

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Speaker 1: looked at what she was wearing. She was happy to

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Speaker 1: be ignored, and unfortunately none of her other teachers had

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Speaker 1: mister mccaskell's glorious sense of humor. The classes seemed boring,

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Speaker 1: with science introducing topics that she had covered years ago.

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Speaker 1: And finally the bell rang and it was time to

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Speaker 1: get the buss, which would deliver her to the freedom

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Speaker 1: of her bedroom.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: She sat at the back of the bus, and again,

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Speaker 1: when the boss hit a bump, she hit her head.

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Speaker 2: Ugh.

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Speaker 1: The bus delivered her to the front of her house,

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Speaker 1: which Red thought took an eternity. She had to sit

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Speaker 1: could pull her hoodie down over her face. Charlie seemed

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Speaker 1: she noticed that there was a strange black car in

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Speaker 1: seriousness as she walked in the house. Usually she would

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Speaker 1: of freshly baked cookies, but she hesitated. She was curious

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Speaker 2: Red.

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Speaker 1: Her mom called, please come into the kitchen. As Red

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Speaker 1: The larger of the two, a woman with arms twice

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Speaker 1: the size of Red's legs, stood there motionless. The other,

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Speaker 1: a man, stood there with a large, forced smile with

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Speaker 1: impeccably white teeth. Red her mother said anxiously, we need

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Speaker 1: to talk, and that is the end of this part

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Speaker 1: of the story. Good night, sleep tight s