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Speaker 1: This story is about a caterpillar who is given the

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Speaker 1: responsibility of looking after a butterfly's eggs. She asks the

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Speaker 1: lark for how to know what to do to raise

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Speaker 1: the eggs, and is shocked at his answers. The butterfly,

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Speaker 1: Let me hire you as a nurse for my poor children,

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Speaker 1: said a butterfly to a quiet caterpillar who was strolling

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Speaker 1: along a cabbage leaf in her odd lumbering way. See

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Speaker 1: these little eggs, continued the butterfly. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: long it will be before they come to life, and

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Speaker 1: I feel very sick and poorly. And if I should

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Speaker 1: butterflies when I am gone? Will you kind, mild green caterpillar?

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Speaker 1: But you must be careful with what you give them

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Speaker 1: to eat, caterpillar, they cannot, of course, live on your

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Speaker 1: rough food. You must give them early dew and honey

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Speaker 1: from the flowers, and you must let them fly about

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Speaker 1: only a little way at first, or of course one

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Speaker 1: can't expect them to use their wings properly all at once.

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Speaker 1: Dear me, it is a sad pity you cannot fly yourself.

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Speaker 1: But I have no time to look for another nurse now,

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Speaker 1: so you will do your best, I hope, dear dear,

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Speaker 1: I cannot think what made me come and lay my

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Speaker 1: eggs on a cabbage leaf. What a place for young

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Speaker 1: butterflies to be born upon. Still you will be kind,

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Speaker 1: will you not? To the poor little ones here? Take

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Speaker 1: this gold dust from my wings as a reward. Oh,

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Speaker 1: how dizzy I am, caterpillar, you will remember about the food.

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Speaker 1: And with these words, the butterfly drooped her wings and

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Speaker 1: was gone, And the green caterpillar, who had not had

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Speaker 1: the opportunity of even saying yes or no to the request,

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Speaker 1: was left standing alone by the side of the butterfly's eggs.

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Speaker 1: A pretty nurse she has chosen, indeed, poor lady, exclaimed

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Speaker 1: she and a pretty business I have in hand. Why

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Speaker 1: her senses must have left her, or she would never

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Speaker 1: have asked a poor crawling creature like me to bring

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Speaker 1: up her dainty little ones much. They'll mind me, truly

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Speaker 1: when they feel the happy wings on their backs, and

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Speaker 1: can fly away out of my sight whenever they choose. Ah,

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Speaker 1: how silly some people are in spite of their painted

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Speaker 1: clothes and the gold dust on their wings. However, the

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Speaker 1: poor butterfly was gone, and there lay the eggs on

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Speaker 1: so she resolved to do her best. But she got

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Speaker 1: no sleep that night. She was so very anxious she

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Speaker 1: made her back quite ache with walking all night round

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Speaker 1: her young charges for fear any harm should happen to them.

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Speaker 1: And in the morning, says she to herself, two heads

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Speaker 1: are better than one. I will ask some wise animal

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Speaker 1: about the matter and get advice. How should a poor

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Speaker 1: for help? But still there was difficulty. Who should the

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Speaker 1: caterpillar ask. There was the shaggy dog who sometimes came

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Speaker 1: near to talk to her, and then she should never

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Speaker 1: forgive herself. There was the tomcat, to be sure, who

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Speaker 1: basking himself and warming his fur in the sunshine. But

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Speaker 1: I wonder, which is the wisest of all the animals

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Speaker 1: I know? Sighed the caterpillar in great distress, And then

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Speaker 1: she thought and thought, till at last she thought of

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Speaker 1: the lark. And she liked this idea. Because the lark

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Speaker 1: He must be very clever and know a great deal,

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Speaker 1: for to go up very high, which she could never do,

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Speaker 1: was the caterpillar's idea of perfect glory. Now in the

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Speaker 1: I observed the caterpillar. Timidly, the lark said, perhaps he should,

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Speaker 1: but he did not satisfy her curiosity any further. Soon afterwards, however,

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Speaker 1: he went singing upwards into the bright blue sky. By degrees.

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Speaker 1: herself up most carefully, which she did now, But it

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Speaker 1: again and resumed her walk around the butterfly eggs, nibbling

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Speaker 1: she moved along. What a time the lark has been gone,

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Speaker 1: she cried at last. I wonder where he is just now.

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Speaker 1: I would give all my legs to know. He must

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Speaker 1: think how I should like to know where it is

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Speaker 1: that he goes to and what he hears in that

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Speaker 1: but he never lets any secret out. He is very close,

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Speaker 1: and the green caterpillar took another turn round the butterfly's eggs.

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Speaker 1: At last, the lark's voice began to be heard again.

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Speaker 1: The caterpillar almost jumped for joy, and it was not

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Speaker 1: long before she saw her friend descend with a hushed

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Speaker 1: note to the cabbage bed news news glo, glorious news, friend, caterpillar,

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Speaker 1: saying the lark. But the worst of it is you

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Speaker 1: won't believe me. I believe everything I am told, observed

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Speaker 1: the caterpillar hastily. Well, then, first of all, I will

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Speaker 1: tell you what these little creatures are to eat. And

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Speaker 1: the lark nodded his beak toward the eggs. What do

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Speaker 1: you think it is to be guess? Dew and the

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Speaker 1: honey out of flowers? I am afraid, sighed the caterpillar.

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Speaker 1: No such thing. Something simpler than that. Something you can

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Speaker 1: get at quite easily. I can get at nothing quite easily.

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Speaker 1: But the cabbage leaves, murmured the caterpillar in distress. Excellent,

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Speaker 1: my good friend, cried the lark. You have found it out.

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Speaker 1: You are to feed them with cabbage leaves. Oh, never

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Speaker 1: cried the caterpillar, indignantly. It was their mother's last request

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Speaker 1: that I should do no such thing. Their mother knew

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Speaker 1: nothing about the matter, persisted the lark. But why do

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Speaker 1: You have neither faith nor trust. Oh, I believe everything

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Speaker 1: I am told, said the caterpillar. No, but you do not,

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Speaker 1: replied the lark. You won't believe me even about the food.

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Speaker 1: And yet that is but a beginning of what I

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Speaker 1: have to tell you. Why, caterpillar, what do you think

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Speaker 1: those little eggs will turn out to be butterflies? To

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Speaker 1: be sure, said the caterpillar. Caterpillars, sang the lark, and

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Speaker 1: you'll find it out in time. And the lark flew away,

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Speaker 1: for he did not want to stay and contest the

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Speaker 1: point with his friend. I thought the lark had been

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Speaker 1: wise and kind. Observed the mild green caterpillar once more

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Speaker 1: beginning to walk round the eggs. But I find that

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Speaker 1: he is silly and saucy instead. Perhaps he went up

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Speaker 1: too high this time. Ah, it's a pity when people

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Speaker 1: who soar so high are silly and rude. Nevertheless, dear,

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Speaker 1: I still wonder whom he sees and what he does

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Speaker 1: up yonder. I would tell you if you would believe me,

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Speaker 1: sang the lark, descending once more. I believe everything I

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Speaker 1: am told, said the caterpillar, again, with as grave a

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Speaker 1: face as if it were a fact. Then I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you something else, cried the lark. For the best of

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Speaker 1: my news remains. You will one day be a butterfly yourself,

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Speaker 1: crazy bird, exclaimed the caterpillar. You tease me, and now

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Speaker 1: you are cruel as well as foolish. Go away, I

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Speaker 1: will ask your advice. No more. I told you you

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Speaker 1: would not believe me, cried the lark. I believe everything

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Speaker 1: that I am told, persisted the caterpillar, that is, and

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Speaker 1: she hesitated everything that is reasonable to believe. But to

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Speaker 1: leave off crawling and get wings and become butterflies, Lark,

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Speaker 1: you are too wise to believe such nonsense yourself, for

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Speaker 1: you know it is impossible. I know no such thing,

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Speaker 1: said the lark warmly. Whether I hover over the cornfields

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Speaker 1: I see so many wonderful things. I know no reason

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Speaker 1: why there should not be more, Oh caterpillar, it is

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Speaker 1: because you crawl, because you never get beyond your cabbage leaf,

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Speaker 1: that you call anything impossible nonsense, shouted the caterpillar. I

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Speaker 1: know what's possible and what's not possible, according to my

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Speaker 1: experience and capacity, as well as you do. Look at

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Speaker 1: my long green body and these endless legs, and then

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Speaker 1: You it would be wise, caterpillar, cried the indignant lark.

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Speaker 1: Do you not hear how my song swells with rejoicing

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Speaker 1: as I soar upwards to the mysterious wonder world above,

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Speaker 1: Oh caterpillar, what comes to you from there? Receive as

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Speaker 1: I do, upon trust, That is what you call faith,

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Speaker 1: interrupted the lark. How am I to learn faith? Asked

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Speaker 1: the caterpillar. At that moment, she felt something at her side.

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Speaker 1: She looked round eight or ten little green caterpillars were

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Speaker 1: moving about, and had already made a show of a

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Speaker 1: Butterfli's eggs. Shame and amazement fil bill our green friend's heart.

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Speaker 1: But joy soon followed. Or as the first wonder was possible,

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Speaker 1: the second might be so too. Teach me your lesson, lark,

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Speaker 1: she would say, And the larks sang to her of

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Speaker 1: the wonders of the earth below and of the heavens above.

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Speaker 1: And the caterpillar talked all the rest of her life

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Speaker 1: to her relations of the time when she should be

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Speaker 1: had learned the lark's lesson of faith, And when she

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Speaker 1: was going into her chrysalis, she said, I shall be

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Speaker 1: a butterfly someday. But her relations thought her head was wandering,

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Speaker 1: and they said, poor thing. And when she was a

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Speaker 1: butterfil fly and was going to leave again, she said,

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Speaker 1: I have known many wonders. I have faith. I can

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Speaker 1: trust even now for what shall come next.

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Speaker 2: If I had to, I could go alone.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Good Night, sleep tight, some wander un two.

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Speaker 2: I could live alone in the.

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Speaker 3: Woods, no single soul, Never feel alone.

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Speaker 2: Because you've become a home.

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Speaker 3: These windows could shut it to the ground, these walls

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Speaker 3: before right down the lights.

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Speaker 2: Good oupen down because this house is not my home.

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Speaker 3: Crumble into the first I don't need that much. I

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Speaker 3: don't need to, because you've become a whole.

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Speaker 2: Because you've become.

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Speaker 3: A you've become a.

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Speaker 2: You've become a hole MRG, because you've become U.

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Speaker 1: I don't

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