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Speaker 1: The Laundronauts is a production of I Heart Radio. This

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Speaker 1: is what we remember and remember, this is what it

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Speaker 1: sounded like. What we couldn't hear, we made up. The

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Speaker 1: rest of it is true. Hello, mother's appear taking to

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Speaker 1: you and yours. I'm all well at the homestead. I hope.

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Speaker 1: Who's the broguish vanche friend of the family. He's no friends, sir,

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Speaker 1: She's a vice principal at our school. You can't say

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Speaker 1: that about a nun. Yes, well, Losa, And where is

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Speaker 1: her father? He's on a business trip. He's been gone

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Speaker 1: two weeks, sir, must be a very important business trip.

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Speaker 1: Then sister aunt has been visiting, sir. Oh the monkett.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure she's a great help with spells, curses and

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Speaker 1: crucibles in the love How how did we fair in

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Speaker 1: our ongoing London odd chillers children? I failed, sir, Nothing

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Speaker 1: mud sleepy forgetful nights, my dear Well, Yes, I heard

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Speaker 1: a song, a song. I was walking along and I

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Speaker 1: noticed one of the houses in our neighborhood looked very tasty.

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Speaker 1: So I took a bite out of it. It was

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Speaker 1: very taste. Then I remembered houses aren't normally very tasty,

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Speaker 1: and I said, wait a second, here, everything up brighter

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Speaker 1: and sharper. I heard music from inside the house, so

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Speaker 1: I went in. I searched all over. Every time I

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Speaker 1: thought I found the music in a closet or just

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Speaker 1: around the corner, it was gone. So I stopped, took

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Speaker 1: a breath, and listened hard. I heard words, sing them,

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Speaker 1: sing the words you heard. Please, sir, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear that. Hey, I've heard to sing at church.

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Speaker 1: It's not a pleasant experience, sir. I've heard you tune

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Speaker 1: at church. That's not so pleasant either. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: beauty is in the ear of the Eda fire. Please,

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Speaker 1: my dear, the Foremarca is all yours. No, But why

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Speaker 1: I won't be able to do it? Right, my dear,

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Speaker 1: you learn nothing else from me in our time together.

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Speaker 1: Learn this. There is no right, there's no wrong. There's

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Speaker 1: only the songs. Professor, Yes, why do you stare at me?

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Speaker 1: So those were the words in my dream. Interesting, remember

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Speaker 1: Jonaica's words. Breathe about to them. Now let their music

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Speaker 1: come through you sing. There is no right, there is wrong,

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Speaker 1: There is allly the song. There is no light before

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Speaker 1: the there is no night that nat too long. There

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Speaker 1: is all right. There is no wrong. There is aly

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Speaker 1: the song Thank you well Uni. Indeed, my lady, I

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Speaker 1: pronounce your first Londoner challenge accepted in some mountain. What

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Speaker 1: about you, squire? You don't earn achievement by mirror association.

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Speaker 1: He was put in the work, back to the dreaming board. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to be harsh, but these are not

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Speaker 1: trivial matters. Children are. Obstacle is not your enemy. It

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Speaker 1: is an ally, such as the case with Jonica. As

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Speaker 1: you may recall, when last we left our story, she

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Speaker 1: had failed to appear at the washer Tiium. Midnight approached.

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Speaker 1: As Jonica was weaving her way through the back allies

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Speaker 1: of the Tenderlin, a man stepped out of the far

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Speaker 1: could see he was tall and seen and see that

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Speaker 1: he wearing a long, thick cake. Jonica struck a fighter

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Speaker 1: suppose and shouted the battle cry she had learned from

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Speaker 1: a great granny. Manny you mayes and a handbasket, mr.

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Speaker 1: But I'm going to take something if yours with me.

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Speaker 1: The man chuckled, or rather hawked up something resembling a

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Speaker 1: chuckle more of a chocoal and stepped into the lamplight.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't wearing a cap at all, but a double

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Speaker 1: smelling old man for the washingari. His face contorted inward

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Speaker 1: behind his filthy whiskers. Well observed, my dear. He nonchillantly

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Speaker 1: flipped the blankets over his shoulders. Somehow they were still wept.

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Speaker 1: You don't go anywhere without splotch and splurt. There, it's

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Speaker 1: splotch and split the fate, I hear by w sibling

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Speaker 1: splotch and split. Magnificent. You are quite the word spirit,

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Speaker 1: my dear, Why are you falling? I need your help?

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Speaker 1: Sorry only She tried to slip pass him, but again

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Speaker 1: he cut her off. Late for a midnight ROUNDE. How

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Speaker 1: do you know that you really are the north Star,

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Speaker 1: aren't you? Mona? Maybe the brains, but you are the heart,

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Speaker 1: my dear, you are the true leader, Jonica felt. Strange.

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Speaker 1: Waves of armies crash against two rips. Leader, But it

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Speaker 1: is you I wish to enlist. I'm dizzy again. She

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Speaker 1: tried to slip past him. Again he blocked her path.

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Speaker 1: You wish to help, j d yes, maybe, so let's

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Speaker 1: make it to you. What kind of deal you go

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Speaker 1: next into Absentia. If you do, I will help you

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Speaker 1: retrieve j D. Yes going next. We voted, and yet

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Speaker 1: it wasn't your choice. That's the way the cookie cumbles. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and if Benny goes next, he will be the cookie

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Speaker 1: that crambles. How do you know that? Because Sludge wants

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Speaker 1: Benny to go next, My dear, he has designs on

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Speaker 1: the boy, asked Barry. He chuckled, whore, his hand vanished

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Speaker 1: into the tumble weed of his face. Let's just say

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Speaker 1: I've been tangled and I'd like to become an entangled

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Speaker 1: What does they have to do with me? All I

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Speaker 1: can say is that it will resolve all of our problems,

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Speaker 1: yours mine, j D s, the laundronknots, but most importantly, absentious.

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Speaker 1: What do you care about, Absentia? She is my home.

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Speaker 1: The waves of unees crashed. You are trying to hurt

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Speaker 1: me hard wink hood wink, hood wink, glorious hood wink perfect.

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Speaker 1: As you know, any villain with his weight means an

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Speaker 1: appropriately menacing monica perfect. Why are you crying in front

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Speaker 1: of Harry's Hardware store? Where? Why did you come to

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Speaker 1: my aid? I was paying and your first impulse was

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Speaker 1: to help. It's not hard to be decent. His whiskers parted,

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Speaker 1: revealing a grinning gate of green glashes. But it's very

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Speaker 1: difficult to be indecent, my dear, especially when indecency is required.

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Speaker 1: On decency, it's never run along midnight approaches. But don't

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Speaker 1: forget to bring the carrot. You'll need it in ABSENTI

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Speaker 1: I told you, I know you vanished into the fault.

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Speaker 1: Joannaka pulled up a collar and ran. She arrived at

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Speaker 1: exactly eleven fifty nine PM. We were already in mid prep.

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Speaker 1: I call it the diamond formation. It was my idea, Yes,

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Speaker 1: it was Nick's idea. It's like a baseball diamond. Benny

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Speaker 1: your catcher. You stand here and grab whatever comes out

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Speaker 1: of the machine. I'm pitcher and we'll leave from the center.

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Speaker 1: Nick as shortstop, roams the infield, picks up grounders. Perry

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Speaker 1: and I took our field duties, pop flies being a responsibility.

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Speaker 1: Jonico was designated taking a position atop the JumboTron. Charlie's

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Speaker 1: role in the TDF was more problematic. Grads, crew, your

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Speaker 1: job is to protect the integrity of the environment. Charlie

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Speaker 1: got it. I guess we're quickly locked into positions. Our

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Speaker 1: watchers stuck from midnight. We taste nothing happened. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to open the machine. Mona stood forward and opened the door.

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Speaker 1: When she did, it was as if the machine had

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Speaker 1: finally eaten one too many socks and just needed to vomit.

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Speaker 1: Mona took the first hitch and patuy and went keistra

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Speaker 1: over kissing. Benny took the next wave and the chops

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Speaker 1: and spun like a top pulled. Positions were locked back

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Speaker 1: into formation. No new enemy appeared, just sucks, wave after wave.

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Speaker 1: After Joannica turned Perry was right washer Cherian was already

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Speaker 1: four ft deep with socks and rising. Perry hopped on

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Speaker 1: Benny's shoulder. They pushed towards the front door, but the

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Speaker 1: Benny hoisted Harry up onto the s Perry tugged on

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Speaker 1: the la but the window wouldn't butch. The rest of

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Speaker 1: us scrabbled for the higher ground. J Johonica could get

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Speaker 1: She managed to dragged herself back to the top, arms

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Speaker 1: exploded with orange light as the pen came soaring out

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Speaker 1: of the swamp. Johnicle leap caught the pen and vanished

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Speaker 1: but she fought to stay afloat, got her head above

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Speaker 1: olver oatfield. Her hand touched Steve To stabbed the carrots

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Speaker 1: cut out. Jonaka broke the surface. The air hit her

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Speaker 1: like loved and chocolate. She gulped in big helping and

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Speaker 1: searched for her friends. Nick was hanging from a pipe.

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Speaker 1: In the series, Perry was still crouched on the windows.

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Speaker 1: Mona and I had found resued at the top of

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Speaker 1: two machines. Bernie was still submerged and sucked. Hoodwin's words

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Speaker 1: echoed in Jonaka's hand, don't forget to bring the carriage

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Speaker 1: you'll need it. In absentition, Jonica stared at the pin

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Speaker 1: on Cuba Vomitron, formerly the JumboTron, became in the halotron.

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Speaker 1: Jonaker was gone in an instant, sucked back into the

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Speaker 1: machine for a sudden for city of the Socker curage.

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Speaker 1: Within minutes, the room was again utterly devoid of sucks

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Speaker 1: When she awoke, she was looking up at the sunder

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Speaker 1: at her. Jonica shrieked. The socks leaped back, and for

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Speaker 1: a moment Jonica could see all of the sky, suck Mountain,

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Speaker 1: the keyhole, the socks tumbling out. Then the sucklings bent

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Speaker 1: over her again and her window was shut. The smallest

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Speaker 1: of the bunch kicked her, not hard, more like someone

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Speaker 1: poking the dead dog lying in the gutter. It was

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Speaker 1: The sucklings leaped back, but maintained their perimeter. Jonica turned

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Speaker 1: in a slow circle. One of the giants, Chuckling, the

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Speaker 1: I'm Jonica. I'm a luntiner. We're here to help you.

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Speaker 1: The sucklings searched everywhere for the other laundronots. Well, i'm

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Speaker 1: here to help you. Please take me to Slutch whatever

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Speaker 1: you call him. It's okay, we're friends. Sucklings took a

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Speaker 1: menacing step towards her. Jonica returned the character her knapsack

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Speaker 1: and offered her empty palms out of them no harm.

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Speaker 1: The sucklings relaxed. The sucklings leaped into the air. Jonica

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Speaker 1: always had gifts, usually candies or snacks, always a pouch

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Speaker 1: of cinnamon sticks her favorite of all the spaces. She

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Speaker 1: laid the items on the ground as it, presenting the

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Speaker 1: rarest of gems and the softest of silks. None of

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Speaker 1: these caught the suckling's attention. There was a collective shudder

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Speaker 1: she muscled her way back through and saw a piece

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Speaker 1: of drinking I rescued from the Washtaria. It was growing

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Speaker 1: like a lizarding boy from the untouched hip, said a sockling.

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Speaker 1: There shivered, stretched tatan and shot straight under the air

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Speaker 1: like a Champagne cork. This in turn caused the other

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Speaker 1: socklings to leap ecstatically. The landing almost killed her. Gift

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Speaker 1: was squashed. The ground shook jonicas stumbled. The little suckling

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Speaker 1: glided beneath her, caught her, held her, gazed into her eyes.

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Speaker 1: You're split or splirt. I don't know, but you're definitely

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Speaker 1: one of the blankets from the wash. It harrium. The

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Speaker 1: little suckling nodded and hugged her, But before they could

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Speaker 1: again ferocity and unbridledling. Sir put it. Pancakes were flocking

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Speaker 1: for what could that possibly mean? Would oh my apologies, captain.

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Speaker 1: One of the many indignities of becoming ancient is the

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Speaker 1: deterioration of one's natural capacity of sound. Exactly how old

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Speaker 1: are you? You were saying, captain, suckling, Sir apparently so

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Speaker 1: so they were like earth worms. Have you caught a keef?

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Speaker 1: We grow an apt comparison, may become blankets in their

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Speaker 1: own world. The suckling, by a chemistry, is in need

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Speaker 1: The Laundronauts, a potentially untrue tale based on actual events, conceived,

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