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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 hello to some friends. Hello to Evan and Xander,

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Speaker 1: Hello to Alexa Renton, and hello to Gray and Foster.

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Speaker 1: I have a very special belated birthday wish going out

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Speaker 1: to Evan, who turned eight on January second. I'm so

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Speaker 1: sorry I missed your birthday, Evan. I hope you had

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Speaker 1: happy belated birthday to Nora Gaines, who turned three years

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Speaker 1: old on January sixteenth. Thank you Evan and Xander, Alexa,

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Speaker 1: so nice meeting all of you. Our stuffed elephant got

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Speaker 1: Mister Dunn had come to the toy store and bought

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Speaker 1: mister Dunn's car ran into a big snow drift and

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Speaker 1: Let's see what happens to the stuffed elephant in this chapter.

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Speaker 1: The Stuffed Elephant Chapter three, banging, puffing, and grinding noises

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Speaker 1: But there the elephant had been inside the warm shop,

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Speaker 1: the snowstorm, drove mister Dunn. The snow was coming down

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Speaker 1: exclaimed mister Dunn. Not hurt a bit, only some snow

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Speaker 1: Then mister Dunn started the car, and it was so

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Speaker 1: Asked a creaking voice, And near the elephant, a big

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Speaker 1: it is going to be? Good night, sleep tight,