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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, it's Mr Jim. Welcome back to Kids Short Stories.

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Speaker 1: Today's story comes to us from Winona. Hey, Winona, she

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Speaker 1: sent us an awesome idea first story, and you can't

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Speaker 1: to 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. Are you ready for today's awesome story

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Speaker 1: about an invisible unicorn? Me too. Let's go. Hey, Buttercup,

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Speaker 1: can you pass me that coffee pot over there? Said Winona? Sure?

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Speaker 1: Thing here it is. Winona and Buttercup were playing house

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Speaker 1: together and they love to play family and they played

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Speaker 1: it probably every single day, and they always loved to

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Speaker 1: pretend that they were baking something in the kitchen or

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Speaker 1: making breakfast for their family, and they always had a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun doing that. Well, you have to know,

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Speaker 1: Buttercup is an invisible friend of Winona's and Buttercup hasn't

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Speaker 1: always been invisible. Um, it's been a very long time

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Speaker 1: that she turned invisible. But right now, Buttercup is invisible

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Speaker 1: and Winona is like her best friend. Hey Buttercup, UM,

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Speaker 1: what do you want to do now? We've been playing

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Speaker 1: family for a long time. I don't know, but I'm

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Speaker 1: kind of tired of being invisible, said Buttercup. Wait you're

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Speaker 1: tired of being invisible? What do you mean you've been

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Speaker 1: invisible forever? Oh no, he said, Buttercup. I've actually not

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Speaker 1: been invisible forever. I used to be a real creature,

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Speaker 1: and I can't really remember what I was. Uh do

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Speaker 1: you Winona thought, for a second, I think you were

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Speaker 1: a unicorn. Aren't you an invisible unicorn? That's so what

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Speaker 1: I always thought you were. I don't remember. I've played

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Speaker 1: all these different characters in our stories for so long.

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Speaker 1: I kind of forget who I am. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I bet if I go back to who I really am,

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Speaker 1: then I'll stop being invisible, said Buttercup. Oh that's a

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Speaker 1: good idea. Whenona said, all right, think think, think who

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Speaker 1: am I? Who is Buttercup? Buttercup thought to herself and

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Speaker 1: she had to try and remember who she really was,

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Speaker 1: because after all these years of being invisible and playing

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Speaker 1: all these different characters in their games, I think she

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Speaker 1: had forgotten who she really was. I really do like

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Speaker 1: to go swimming sometimes. Maybe I'm a shark. Yeah. Maybe

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Speaker 1: if I put a shark fin on my back, then

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Speaker 1: I will turn visible. Because being invisible is fun, but

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Speaker 1: it's not and more because I want to play with

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Speaker 1: people and for them to see with me, and in

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Speaker 1: being invisible it is really hard. So let's make a

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Speaker 1: shark fin and I'll put it on my back and

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Speaker 1: maybe that will turn me visible again. Winona and Buttercup

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Speaker 1: started to draw and cut out on a big piece

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Speaker 1: of paper a nice beautiful shark fin. They attached some

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Speaker 1: string and rubber bands to it so they could tie

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Speaker 1: it around Buttercup and put it right on her back. Perfect,

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Speaker 1: that looks beautiful, all right now one, two, three? Buttercup

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Speaker 1: closed her eyes and opened them. My back up and

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Speaker 1: oh no, I'm still invisible? How oh no? What am I?

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Speaker 1: What am? I went on a thought to herself, Buttercup,

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Speaker 1: I really think that you're a unicorn. No, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a unicorn. Unicorns are weird. I want to be something else.

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Speaker 1: I um uh, maybe a tree. I'm oh, I'm totally

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Speaker 1: a tree. Let's go get some branches and maybe if

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Speaker 1: we can tie the branches to me, then that will

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Speaker 1: turn me visible again. And now I'll turn into a tree. Okay.

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Speaker 1: When Nona said she didn't think that Buttercup was a tree,

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Speaker 1: but she was just kind of going along with it.

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Speaker 1: When Oa ran outside and got some small tree branches

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Speaker 1: with some string and tape and tie it and taped

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Speaker 1: them around Buttercup. She was starting to look pretty silly

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Speaker 1: with this shark fin and tree branches all sticking out

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Speaker 1: of her, and Buttercup closed her eyes and count into three, one, two, three.

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Speaker 1: Buttercup opened her eyes back up. Still nothing. I'm still invisible.

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Speaker 1: I'm never gonna turn back into my normal self. I

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Speaker 1: want to be seen. Buttercup was getting a little sad,

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Speaker 1: and Winona came over to give her a hug, and

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Speaker 1: then Buttercup thought of one more idea. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I love cats. I must be a cat, like a

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Speaker 1: real cat with whiskers and a tail and fluffy, and

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Speaker 1: that's totally what I am. They ran downstairs to get

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Speaker 1: some string to turn into whiskers. This might actually work,

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Speaker 1: went on a thought to herself. Buttercup really did like cats,

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Speaker 1: and maybe she was a cat. They quickly put together

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Speaker 1: a whisker face to put on Buttercup, as like a

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Speaker 1: mask with cat whiskers. And they thought, as soon as

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Speaker 1: they put this whisker mask on top of Buttercup's face,

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Speaker 1: opened her eyes and immediately started to cry, I'll never

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Speaker 1: be myself? Who am I? Wanona? I don't remember? As

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Speaker 1: Wenona held onto Buttercup as she cried, Wanona patted her

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Speaker 1: back and reminded her, Buttercup, I really think that you're

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Speaker 1: a unicorn, and I don't think you should be afraid

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Speaker 1: of being that. Buttercup said, Are you sure you really

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Speaker 1: think that's what I am? Wenona said, yeah, I know

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Speaker 1: it's been a long time, but I think you should

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Speaker 1: just take off all of these silly things and maybe

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Speaker 1: if you really are your true self, then you will

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Speaker 1: turn visible again. One by one, they started to take

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Speaker 1: off all of the silly costumes, which Buttercup started to think.

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Speaker 1: I think she'd always been in a different costume every

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Speaker 1: day for as long as she can remember. As they

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Speaker 1: pulled off the branches and the shark fin and cat

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Speaker 1: whiskers and the fireman boots and everything else that she

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Speaker 1: had been putting on her for years and years. Finally

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Speaker 1: Buttercup could not believe it. Buttercup shouted, Winona, I am

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Speaker 1: a unicorn. Buttercup was so happy to finally be seen again.

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Speaker 1: And she was seen when she finally realized who she

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Speaker 1: truly was, not all these silly costumes that she was

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Speaker 1: putting on. That was who maybe she wanted to be,

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Speaker 1: but it wasn't her. And so after all these years

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Speaker 1: of playing all these fun games with Winona, she had

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Speaker 1: kind of forgotten who she was. But Buttercup was indeed

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Speaker 1: a very beautiful and magical unicorn. And it's all thanks

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Speaker 1: to Winona who saved Buttercup. Wow, what a happy adventure.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that Winona saved the day and helped

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Speaker 1: Buttercup become visible again. Well, I think these friends are

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Speaker 1: just in the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The end. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end of the story.

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Speaker 1: Great job. Well you know what, Tommin is, it's time

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Speaker 1: for a kid shout out. I want to say hey

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Speaker 1: to Kai from Vancouver, Hannah from Ontario, Henry and Sunny

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Speaker 1: from Maine, Crosby and Wells from South Dakota, and Cavea

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Speaker 1: from India. I'm so glad that you're all on the

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Speaker 1: Spy Kid team and a part of the kids your

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Speaker 1: Stories family. We could not stop doctor Stinky Breath without you. Well,

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Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and I will see

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Speaker 1: you on the next adventure. I