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

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story comes to us from Maggie. Hey Maggie,

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Speaker 1: she sent us an awesome idea first story, and you

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Speaker 1: can too. Just head over to kids short Stories dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Send me your idea and maybe we'll turn it into

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Speaker 1: an awesome adventure and parents. My name is Mr Jim,

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Speaker 1: Like I said, and if we haven't met, I live

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina with my wife and my three boys,

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Speaker 1: and we love stories. We really like screenless entertainment, and uh,

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Speaker 1: we know how hard that can be. And so that's

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Speaker 1: why I make these stories for you to use either

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Speaker 1: in the car while you're driving, or quiet time at

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Speaker 1: home or getting ready for bed. We've found that these stories,

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Speaker 1: um have really helped a lot of families all around

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Speaker 1: the world. Well, my friends, are you guys ready for

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Speaker 1: today's adventure about Maggie and me too? Let's go. It

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Speaker 1: was a beautiful morning and Maggie was just waking up. Oh.

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Speaker 1: Do you like to stretch as much as Mr Jim does. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when I wake up, I need to stretch all my

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Speaker 1: arms and my legs and my toes and my nose. Yes,

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Speaker 1: stretching is really important when you wake up, and Maggie

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Speaker 1: is an ultimate stretcher. As she got up out of bed,

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Speaker 1: she reached down and touched her toes and stretched her

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Speaker 1: arms up towards the ceiling and took a deep breath.

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Speaker 1: Oh that felt good, said Maggie. As you ran downstairs

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Speaker 1: to eat a delicious breakfast. Downstairs, her parents were waiting

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Speaker 1: there with a newspaper. Maggie, I think the world needs

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Speaker 1: your help. What's going on? Look at this? As they

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Speaker 1: put the newspaper right in front of her on the table.

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Speaker 1: Maggie read the headlines and it said sea monster terrorizes city. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and she read more about the story. There was some

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Speaker 1: kind of crazy sea creature really big, like bigger than

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Speaker 1: normal that I guess had been scaring a lot of

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Speaker 1: people and everyone's freaking out about it. Oh no, all right,

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Speaker 1: you're right mom and dad. I think they need my help.

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Speaker 1: Maggie gobbled down her breakfast and got her shoes on

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Speaker 1: and went on her way to figure out what was

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Speaker 1: going on. Wait a second, why why did they say

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Speaker 1: like Maggie needed to save the day with this creature?

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Speaker 1: What it's so special about, Maggie, Well, I'm glad you asked,

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Speaker 1: because Maggie has a superpower of talking to animals, and

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Speaker 1: so all kinds of crazy creatures that surface out of

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Speaker 1: Maggie always comes to save the day because she's able

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Speaker 1: to talk to animals, because most people, pretty much almost

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Speaker 1: no one else can talk to animals like Maggie can.

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Speaker 1: She's on our animal rescue team. And she headed towards

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Speaker 1: the beach. She started to wonder, what on earth could

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Speaker 1: that article be talking about? Mmm, what kind of sea

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Speaker 1: creature would be doing this? And before she got to

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Speaker 1: and screaming in the opposite direction. Hey, hey, excuse me,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? You gotta run friend in life, that's

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Speaker 1: crazy at the beach right, Everyone was screaming and running

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Speaker 1: away from the beach. But Maggie knew that now was

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Speaker 1: the time to choose to be brave. One, two, three.

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Speaker 1: As she got to three, she continued pedaling on her

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Speaker 1: bike towards the beach. She was specially trained like not

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Speaker 1: everyone could run towards the beach where people were running

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Speaker 1: away from screaming that there's a three monster but like

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Speaker 1: I said, Maggie was specially trained. She arrived on the beach,

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Speaker 1: she looked around and nobody was left. Everyone had run away,

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Speaker 1: And she looked around and didn't see any creatures anywhere.

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Speaker 1: She wasn't sure exactly what everyone was so afraid of,

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Speaker 1: but she had to figure it out. As she walked

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Speaker 1: around the beach, she saw they weren't footprints, but definitely

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Speaker 1: Oh no, this is bad. If that creature is really

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Speaker 1: It had definitely like slid its way out of the

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Speaker 1: these tracks or these I don't know, slide marks on

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Speaker 1: When the beach ended and it was like the street

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Speaker 1: As Maggie continued to follow these wet prints um the streets,

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Speaker 1: it's looking for some kind of home. Oh no, or

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Speaker 1: continued following the tracks, and it looked like the creature

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Speaker 1: at that one building there. Pretty sure. That looks like

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Speaker 1: an octopus arm coming out of that window. What in

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Speaker 1: and called out to the octopus. Hello, in there, I'm

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Speaker 1: are you talking about? Who's there? This bellowing voice came

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Speaker 1: He was huge. What do you want from me? Oh? Hello, um,

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Speaker 1: my name is Maggie and I'm on the animal rescue

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Speaker 1: team and I just had to ask, what in the

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Speaker 1: world are you doing. You're destroying all these buildings in

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Speaker 1: people's homes, and what are you looking for? I'm looking

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Speaker 1: so no one must live here. Uh no, sir, they're

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Speaker 1: they're empty because everyone's running away from you. They're terrified

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I don't eat people. I'm just

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Speaker 1: looking for a home. You see my home and the

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Speaker 1: I thought were empty. I'm very sorry for causing such

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Speaker 1: I'm us. That's okay. Well, I know it was kind

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Speaker 1: of an accident and a misunderstanding, and we'll be able

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Speaker 1: got to find you a home. Let me think. As

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Speaker 1: Maggie thought and called back into the animal rescue team,

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Speaker 1: they sent to the coordinates of a new beautiful home.

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Speaker 1: Down deep, deep deep in the ocean, there was a

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Speaker 1: was very happy. Oh, thank you very much, my friend. Well,

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Speaker 1: you see, I just I also am looking for friends.

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Speaker 1: I don't like living alone. Do you think I could

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Speaker 1: would be super cool, said Maggie as she waved by

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Speaker 1: to her octopus friend as he slipped back into the ocean.

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Speaker 1: The entire town was very happy to see that this

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Speaker 1: just looking for a new place to live. They were

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Speaker 1: the day. The end. Great job. You listened all the

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Speaker 1: way to the end, and you know what time it is.

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Speaker 1: It's time for a kid, showedos. I want to say

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Speaker 1: hey to Calliope from California, Luca from Maine, Winter from Burnaby,

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Speaker 1: Calvin from Los Angeles, Corina and Caden from Dublin, California,

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Speaker 1: Slater from Cape Kral, Florida. In August and Bertie from Hampden, Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all on our kids stories, family,

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Speaker 1: and on our spy team. We couldn't stop doctors, thinky

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Speaker 1: breath without you, my friends. Well, this is Mr Jim

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Speaker 1: signing off and never forget to choose to be brave.

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Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure. By