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

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today story is brought to us by Sophia.

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Speaker 1: you guys ready for today's adventure? Oh boy, there's a dragon,

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Speaker 1: me too, let's go. It was a cold and wintry day.

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Speaker 1: When Sophia looked out the window. She knew that today

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Speaker 1: was an adventure day. She was very excited to find

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Speaker 1: something new. You see, Sophia was an adventurer. That means well,

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Speaker 1: she loves adventures. Do you like going on adventures? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Me too. I I never pass up an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go on an adventure. Sophia. She was extremely brave and

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Speaker 1: had been planning today's adventure for many weeks. You see,

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Speaker 1: there were mountains that surrounded Sophia's house, and one by one,

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Speaker 1: she had been traveling up and down all of the mountains,

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Speaker 1: but today was the big one. The big mountain called

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Speaker 1: Cloud Mountain because it was so tall it went through

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Speaker 1: the clouds. She grabbed all over gear, which meant snow

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Speaker 1: pants and special boots, in a very warm jacket with

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Speaker 1: hat and gloves. It was going to be a very

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Speaker 1: cold adventure, but Sophia was ready for anything. She headed

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Speaker 1: out the door. She said goodbye to her parents, and

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Speaker 1: her mom handed her a special snack for today's adventure.

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Speaker 1: All right, Sophia, well just make sure that your home

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Speaker 1: before it gets dark, and stay safe. We love you,

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Speaker 1: by I love you, shouted Sophia as she started her

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Speaker 1: hike up the trail. There was a little bit of snow.

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Speaker 1: It was definitely cold and windy, but this part of

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Speaker 1: the hike it was just, you know, maybe an inch

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Speaker 1: of snow. That was easy, but it would get much

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Speaker 1: much harder. After about thirty minutes had passed, she had

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Speaker 1: reached a much higher elevation than she had begun and

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Speaker 1: it was time to pull out the snow shoes. What

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Speaker 1: are snow shoes? Have you ever walked in really deep

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Speaker 1: snow before? Yeah? Well, if you haven't snow when it

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Speaker 1: gets really deep sometimes it can be really hard to

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Speaker 1: walk through it because you sink all the way to

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Speaker 1: the bottom. And right now the snow was getting as

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Speaker 1: deep as Sophia's knees, which made it very hard to

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Speaker 1: walk through. As she pulled out her snow shoes, she

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Speaker 1: strapped them onto her shoes. And wait a second, what

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Speaker 1: are snow shoes? Good question, Well, they kind of look

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Speaker 1: like a tennis racket. Yes, I know that sounds kind

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Speaker 1: of silly, but snowshoes they help you stay above that

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Speaker 1: deep snow. It works in spreading out your weight. So

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Speaker 1: imagine if you had a really wide shoe, like like

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Speaker 1: a tennis racket, tied onto the bottom of your feet.

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Speaker 1: That makes your surface area much bigger and spreads out

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Speaker 1: the weight across the snow so that you can stay

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Speaker 1: on top of the snow instead of sinking all the

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Speaker 1: way down, which makes walking a whole lot easier. Sophia

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Speaker 1: was sitting on an old tree as she was strapping

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Speaker 1: on the snow shoes to the bottom of her boots.

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Speaker 1: There she said, that don't make it a whole lot easier.

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Speaker 1: I love hiking in the snow. It's so fun, and

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Speaker 1: she continued her hike up the mountain. She was approaching

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Speaker 1: the clouds. Wow, I can't believe it. It looks so

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Speaker 1: beautiful up here. As she was looking around and turn it,

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Speaker 1: she could see for miles. The view she had was

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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. She could see her house way down there,

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Speaker 1: and she could even see her friend's house. Wow, she

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Speaker 1: was really high up this mountain and could see for miles.

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Speaker 1: Then she continued her hike up towards the clouds. You see,

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Speaker 1: everybody wondered what the top of this mountain. Remember Cloud

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Speaker 1: Mountain is through the clouds. Everyone wondered what the top

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Speaker 1: looked like because you couldn't even see it because it

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Speaker 1: was always in the clouds. Sophia was determined to be

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Speaker 1: one of the first to ever see what's on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the clouds. After a quick break to

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Speaker 1: eat her snack and drink and water, she was ready

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Speaker 1: the clouds, she was finally to the top of Mount Cloud. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it was absolutely amazing. And not only was it amazing,

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Speaker 1: stars were. Holy Smokes said Sophia, I feel like I

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Speaker 1: could just reach out and grab one of those stars.

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Speaker 1: She unstrapped her snowshoes and thought about jumping up and

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Speaker 1: trying to grab a star. Do you think she could

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Speaker 1: do that? Do you think you can grab a star

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Speaker 1: out of the sky. I don't think so, but Sophia

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Speaker 1: is really really high up there. Maybe she actually can.

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Speaker 1: As she knelt down and started to stretch her legs,

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Speaker 1: she knew that she was a pretty good jumper and maybe,

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Speaker 1: just maybe she could reach one of the stars. She

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Speaker 1: took a running start and then jumped and leaped with

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Speaker 1: all her might, and she grabbed a star out of

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Speaker 1: the sky. What in the world has She opened up

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Speaker 1: her hand. Her glove was now holding something, something that

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Speaker 1: was very strange. Wow, what is this thing? It glowed

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Speaker 1: like a star, but it was hard in it. It

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Speaker 1: looked almost like an egg. Wow. I gotta take this

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Speaker 1: home and check this out. Sophia carefully placed it in

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Speaker 1: her bag. She now switched out her snow shoes for

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Speaker 1: snow skis and zoomed down the mountain. Do you think

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Speaker 1: it's faster to go up a mountain or to ski

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Speaker 1: down a snow mountain? Yes? It is way faster as

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Speaker 1: Sophia is zooming down the mountain back towards her house.

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Speaker 1: As she slid to a stop in her backyard, she

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Speaker 1: couldn't wait to show her parents what she had found.

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Speaker 1: They were absolutely amazed. They had never seen someone grab

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Speaker 1: a star out of the sky. But this was not

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Speaker 1: an ordinary looking star. There's something strange about this, like

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Speaker 1: Sophia said, it looked like an egg and something amazing

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Speaker 1: was about to happen. Sophia carefully placed it on a

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Speaker 1: pillow in her room and it still glowed. It was

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Speaker 1: like a nightlight, and she fell asleep. She really loved

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Speaker 1: the glow against the ceiling. Early the next morning, she

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Speaker 1: was awoken by a sound more. She jumped out of

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Speaker 1: bed and looked and could not believe her eyes. That

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Speaker 1: star egg thing that she had found up in the

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Speaker 1: sky had now hatched, and there stood before her a

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Speaker 1: tiny baby rainbow dragon. She started screaming, and her parents

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Speaker 1: raced in. What what's wrong? What's wrong? Oh dear, They

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe their eyes, Sofia stand back. They pulled Sophia

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Speaker 1: away from that dragon, but the dragon was scared and

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Speaker 1: hid underneath her bed. Oh he's I think he's scared

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Speaker 1: or something. Can I go help him, said Sophia. Okay,

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Speaker 1: just be careful, said her parents. Sophia knelt down and

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Speaker 1: from under it. He was so scared he was shaking.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, little guy, it's okay. Can we keep him?

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Speaker 1: Sophia instantly turned to her parents and begged to keep

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Speaker 1: the dragon. I totally understand. I would do the same

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Speaker 1: thing if if I found a little dragon egg star

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Speaker 1: thing and at hatchedon, I would totally want to keep

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Speaker 1: the dragon. What about you? Would you want to keep

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Speaker 1: a dragon? Okay, Sophia, But it's up to you to

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Speaker 1: take care of it. It's your responsibility, they said, perfect.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna name him Rainbow Star. And even though that's

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Speaker 1: the end of our story today, it is only just

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Speaker 1: the beginning of Sophia's amazing adventure with her new dragon friend,

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Speaker 1: Rainbow Star. The end. Great job you listen to all

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

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