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Speaker 1: Welcome to the story of River and his Shoe. One morning,

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Speaker 1: which was a normal morning, River got up. He woke

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Speaker 1: up and crawled out of bed. Oh it was a

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Speaker 1: beautiful Saturday morning. As he looked out the window. Who

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Speaker 1: I wonder what I'm gonna do today? He said. As

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Speaker 1: he walked down the stairs. His mom was already in

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Speaker 1: the kitchen baking some delicious waffles, his favorite Saturday breakfast.

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Speaker 1: She said, hey, River, before you sit down and eat

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Speaker 1: the waffles, could you run this bag over to Miss

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Speaker 1: Davis's house and do me a favor? He said absolutely.

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Speaker 1: You see, River loved doing his mom favors. He loved helping,

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Speaker 1: and this was a great opportunity for him, and so

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Speaker 1: he was very excited. He loved seeing Mrs David. She

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Speaker 1: was their neighbor and a really good family friend. So

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Speaker 1: River raced over to the door to put his shoes on.

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Speaker 1: But oh my gosh, ah, he couldn't find his right shoe.

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Speaker 1: He only saw his left shoe. See, their family puts

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Speaker 1: all their shoes right next to their door in a

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Speaker 1: very straight line. Somehow, all the shoes were there except

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Speaker 1: for Rivers right shoe. The River said, Mom, have you

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Speaker 1: seen my right shoe. Mom said, no, honey, maybe check

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Speaker 1: upstairs in your room, but I haven't seen it. And

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Speaker 1: so River raced upstairs and looked everywhere. Under his bed,

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Speaker 1: under his pillow definitely wasn't there. He looked in his closet.

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Speaker 1: He looked everywhere and nothing. He came downstairs and was

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Speaker 1: pretty sad because those were his favorite shoes. He said,

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Speaker 1: I really don't know what to do. Oh, he had

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Speaker 1: an idea. He ran back upstairs. In the back of

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Speaker 1: his closet, he remembered his last birthday, he had gotten

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Speaker 1: a special spy kit from his grandparents. In this spy

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Speaker 1: kit were special goggles and a black bag that you

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Speaker 1: put clues inside, and binoculars. So he got all his

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Speaker 1: spy gear and put it on and walked downstairs. He said, Mom,

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Speaker 1: and I must solve it. His mom said, don't remember,

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Speaker 1: He said, oh, don't worry, I won't forget, and as

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Speaker 1: he ate a couple of bites of his waffles, he

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Speaker 1: began to think where in the world could the shoe be.

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Speaker 1: Could it have just disappeared into thin air? Or did

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Speaker 1: someone did someone take it? M hm? Or did our

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Speaker 1: new puppy take it to play? Oh? No, what if

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Speaker 1: the puppy chewed on it? Or what if it just

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Speaker 1: walked away? No, shoes don't walk away. It couldn't be that.

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Speaker 1: So he finished his waffle bite and raced out the

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Speaker 1: door as his mom said, don't forget to bring the

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Speaker 1: slam Ah. Looks like he forgot that package. He'll have

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Speaker 1: to do that later. And so now began his spy adventure.

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Speaker 1: Where could his shoe be? What's the first thing that

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Speaker 1: spies do on a mystery. They look for you got

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Speaker 1: it clues? So he had to look for clues. Where

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Speaker 1: could the shoe be? Where do shoes usually go? They

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Speaker 1: usually stay with their other side, the left shoe. But

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Speaker 1: it's not there. M hmmm. Well, let's check over by

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Speaker 1: the puppies home. They just got a new puppy named Georgie,

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Speaker 1: and Georgie was in the backyard in his little doghouse.

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Speaker 1: So the river ran to the backyard and looked at

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Speaker 1: but his shoe was not there. H The next thing,

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Speaker 1: where could it be? Did someone take it? Could someone

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Speaker 1: have somehow snuck inside and taking my shoe? It was

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Speaker 1: He remembered his parents had special cameras to watch the

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Speaker 1: so he ran back inside and looked at the the

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Speaker 1: app on his mom's phone to see if there were

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Speaker 1: any videos of someone sneaking in last night. Nothing. Nobody

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Speaker 1: had snuck in. But wait a second, there was a

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Speaker 1: video of the door opening, but nobody was walking through it.

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Speaker 1: Oh could that be a ghost? No, no, no, ghost

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Speaker 1: ain't real? Sant real? Mhmm. River began to think what

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Speaker 1: So he went to the front yard started to look

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Speaker 1: for more clues. M Something definitely is fishy here. The

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Speaker 1: shoot didn't just disappeared, didn't land in space. It's not

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Speaker 1: And then right there he found his first clue, right

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Speaker 1: It was a little muddy footprint of a right shoe

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Speaker 1: the first clue River found. The Oh my gosh, he

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Speaker 1: he started to look for more footprints, and he found

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Speaker 1: to go on adventures. There were trails, and there was hills,

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Speaker 1: took his binoculars out of his bag and started to

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Speaker 1: that could be a clue. There was. He saw something

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Speaker 1: Is that my shoe? He said, that's my shoe. His

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Speaker 1: shoe was hopping down the hill as fast as it could.

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Speaker 1: What in the world. No one was holding the shoe.

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Speaker 1: The shoe was alive. The shoe was running away from him.

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Speaker 1: So River started to run as fast as he could

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Speaker 1: The shoe was running closer and closer and closer to

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Speaker 1: the shoe all of a sudden froze. What happened to it?

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, I think River has caught it. The

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Speaker 1: shoe jumped accidentally in a giant mud pile, and it

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Speaker 1: deeper it sunk. Just in time. River reached down and

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Speaker 1: What in the world are you doing? River said. It

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Speaker 1: what River was thinking. The River put this muddy shoe

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Speaker 1: to Miss Davis's house. River ran back to his house.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing? He grabbed the package and said sorry, mom,

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Speaker 1: knocked on the door and she answered, and he said,

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Speaker 1: wondering what's inside. Miss David said, Oh, I think these

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Speaker 1: are my new shoes. The end. Wow, wasn't that a

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