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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 Akshu, who

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Speaker 1: is five years old. Hello to Magnolia from Pittsburgh who

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Speaker 1: And hello to Charlotte Puoel, who we forgot to thank

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Speaker 1: for submitting the idea behind Charlotte's guinea Pig. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to say a happy belated birthday to Ollie, who listens

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Speaker 1: to sleep Tight Stories every night in his warm bed

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Speaker 1: with his mom in snowy Minnesota. Ollie turned six on

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Speaker 1: February fifth. Happy birthday to Maya, who turns eight on

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Speaker 1: February eleventh. Happy birthday to Hazel Bradley from Denver, Colorado,

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Speaker 1: who is turning seven on February twelfth, and Happy birthday

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Speaker 1: to Joya, who is turning six on February fourteenth. Happy

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Speaker 1: birthday to you all. I hope you have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Akshu, Magnolia, Emerson and Oliver, Charlotte, Hazel, Maya,

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Speaker 1: Joya and Alie for your support. It is so nice

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Speaker 1: meeting all of you. We are continuing with the story

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Speaker 1: of the Stuffed Elephant in the last part, the elephant

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Speaker 1: happens next The Stuffed Elephant Part five. Hearing the shouts

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Speaker 1: He looks very odd, said missus Dunn, who put him

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Speaker 1: stuffed elephant's back, Archie? Oh no, mother, Archie answered, it

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Speaker 1: wasn't me. It wasn't me, said Elsie. And I didn't either,

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Speaker 1: said the other children. In turn. Well, said missus Dunn,

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Speaker 1: for a moment the elephant thought his friend the spinning wheel,

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Speaker 1: Why don't you reach up with your trunk and feel it,

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Speaker 1: A loop of it wound around the elephant's trunk, and

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Speaker 1: the stuffed elephant is going to find a way to

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Speaker 1: get out of the rope. Good night, sleep tight