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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. We have

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Speaker 1: a new story today about a little girl named Katie.

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Speaker 1: Katie loves to play video games with her friends, and

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Speaker 1: her grandmother doesn't understand what is so special about video games.

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Speaker 1: Grandma usually comes over to visit twice a week, but

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Speaker 1: Katie notices that she has not been around recently and

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Speaker 1: asks her mom why Grandma the gamer? Hi, Mom, I'm home,

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Speaker 1: Katie said, throwing off her sneakers as she came in

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Speaker 1: the door. Hey what's that smell? Did you bake cookies again?

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Speaker 1: She said, as she opened the box of cookies to

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Speaker 1: grab a couple of her favorite kind, smarties and chocolate.

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Speaker 1: If you keep teasing about that one time I baked

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Speaker 1: cookies and they all burnt, you won't see any sweets

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Speaker 1: in this house for a whole year, said her mother,

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Speaker 1: pretending to be angry. Just getting mom, how do they taste?

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Speaker 1: They were on sale at the superstore, and I can't

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Speaker 1: help buying things when they are on sale. They taste great,

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Speaker 1: Katie said, as she poured herself a glass of milk. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: gotta go, got things to do, Katie said, as she

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Speaker 1: ran out of the kitchen towards her favorite place, her bedroom.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you have your homework done before you spend

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Speaker 1: time playing Minecraft. And don't forget Grandma is coming for dinner,

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Speaker 1: so you need to come out for a visit. She

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Speaker 1: It was just some easy math practice, yelled Katie from

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Speaker 1: down the hall. Katie closed her door, turned on her

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Speaker 1: placed her milk and cookies beside her. Lately, this has

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Speaker 1: become her favorite time of the day, the time when

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Speaker 1: she got to build and explore worlds in Minecraft. Katie

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Speaker 1: loved playing video games, especially ones that allowed her to

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Speaker 1: explore and build things. Her current favorite was Minecraft, but

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Speaker 1: when her mother said it was okay, she would play others.

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Speaker 1: Often she would play a new game just to explore

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Speaker 1: that world and not even bother with all the other

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Speaker 1: things the games wanted you to do. Her favorite thing

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Speaker 1: to do was to create her own world with all

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Speaker 1: her favorite animals, especially cows. She loved cows. Often she

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Speaker 1: would recreate the worlds that she read about in her

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Speaker 1: favorite books. It took her two weeks to recreate Hogwarts.

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Speaker 1: Her current project was to create a real working farm,

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Speaker 1: just like the ones that they drove past on their

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Speaker 1: last road trip through the countryside. Many of her friends

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Speaker 1: were the same, something her mother initially found hard to believe.

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Speaker 1: They all came home after school created objects or worlds

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Speaker 1: or cities and would talk about them via video calls.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they would get together at each other's houses so

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Speaker 1: that they could work together to build something. Right now,

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Speaker 1: they were trying to recreate diagon Alley, but they were

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Speaker 1: struggling with the details. Where's Katie, Grandma asked. She's in

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Speaker 1: she's bored with that, she might be reading a book,

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Speaker 1: replied Katie's mom, video games. It just don't understand. It's

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Speaker 1: a nice spring day. Why isn't she outside hanging out

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Speaker 1: video app they use. It's the habit they got into

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Speaker 1: when they weren't allowed to get together in groups. Her

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Speaker 1: group of friends all have similar interests. They hang out.

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Speaker 1: Mom and I make sure they are safe. It's just

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Speaker 1: different than when I grew up. When I was her age,

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Speaker 1: I you had to walk home in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a snowstorm while sharing shoes with aunt, Sophie, interrupted Katie's

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Speaker 1: mom with a laugh. No, Grandma sighed, I was going

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Speaker 1: to say that I was involved in sports, would spend

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Speaker 1: my time after school and practice, and was determined to

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Speaker 1: just kidding, mom. She's into exploration through books and video games.

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Speaker 1: We can't all have the same interests. She would rather

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Speaker 1: time with you. Yes, and I bake better cookies, grandma

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Speaker 1: said with a laugh, as Katie's mom pretended again to

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Speaker 1: get upset. I'm mom, I'm home, Katie said, as she

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Speaker 1: She has been busy with a special project lately and

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Speaker 1: I always remind you not to spend so much time

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Speaker 1: We just video chat and stuff. You older. Katie's mother

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Speaker 1: gave her a look. You and grandma just don't understand apps,

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Speaker 1: Is your homework done? Yes, mom, I'll show you later. Okay. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: my book, so I think today I'll just hmm, yeah,

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Speaker 1: to join her on Minecraft. Grandma is here, wants me

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Speaker 1: to play Minecraft with her. Katy saw the gamer tag

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that Grandma even knows what Minecraft is,

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Speaker 1: let alone how to play, she thought. She spawned into

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Speaker 1: and looked around for any sign that Grandma had started

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Speaker 1: of high hills which Grandma had dug tunnels through. Katie

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Speaker 1: over to play. Would never use crimson colored building materials

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Speaker 1: and all that stained glass. Only Tracy would use this

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Speaker 1: kind of material. The boys always seemed to like stone

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Speaker 1: cart for a ride to my kingdom. Sounds good to me,

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Speaker 1: Katie thought. She pressed ride, and off she went. First.

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Speaker 1: It took her straight down, just like a roller coaster.

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Speaker 1: The only roller coasters that Katie liked to ride were

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Speaker 1: and then started up a long tunnel with torches providing light. Wow,

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Speaker 1: Grandma really pulled a lot of effort into making tunnels.

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Speaker 1: She thought she must have had help. No way, she

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Speaker 1: So many animals, she thought, this is kind of awesome.

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Speaker 1: In the distance, she could see her destination and it

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Speaker 1: She walked to the town square and opened a chat.

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Speaker 1: This place is super awesome. Where are you? I could

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Speaker 1: teleport to you if you know what that means. She typed.

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Speaker 1: Come meet me in the bakery and have some cookies

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Speaker 1: right over, Katie typed, and she ran over to the bakery. Wow,

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Speaker 1: those look like awesome cookies, Grandma, And good job on

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Speaker 1: as good as my real cookies, Grandma typed and yes,

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Speaker 1: I built this whole world all by myself. What typed, Katie?

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Speaker 1: You really are awesome, Grandma, Katie laughed in the chat. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I thought I would try out these video games you

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Speaker 1: talk about us old people can learn these technology things too,

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Speaker 1: Is this the project that Mom mentioned you were working on. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I guess it took me a week or so. I

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Speaker 1: can see why you like it. It's fun to make

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Speaker 1: think you can help me add more buildings to my town?

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Speaker 1: I would love to, Grandma, And maybe after dinner you

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Speaker 1: recipeople and other tips. Sure thing. Do you play Roadblocks type? Grandma?

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Speaker 1: I have played it, but Mom only lets me play

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Speaker 1: when she is around. Why are you playing that too? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I created a game where you have to run really

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Speaker 1: fast and find and collect cookies. Maybe we can play

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Speaker 1: that together too, My Grandma the gamer so cool. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of dinner, your mother says, dinner is ready, so we

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Speaker 1: better go. Okay, I'll be right down. Love you, Grandma,

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Speaker 1: Love you too, dear. And that is the end of

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Speaker 1: our story. Good night, sleep, tighth