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Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Chim and welcome back to kid

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today story is brought to us by Sophia.

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Speaker 1: Hey Sophia, she sent me an awesome idea for a story,

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Speaker 1: and you can too. Just head over to kid short

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Speaker 1: stories dot com. Send me your idea and maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: turn it into an awesome adventure. And right now, I

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Speaker 1: need to make sure that you smash the follow button

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Speaker 1: or that little plus sign so you don't miss out

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Speaker 1: on any of our awesome stories. Are you guys ready

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Speaker 1: for today's adventure? Oh boy, there's a dragon, me too,

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Speaker 1: let's go. It was a cold and wintery day. When

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Speaker 1: Sophia looked out the window. She knew that today was

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Speaker 1: an adventure day. She was very excited to find something new.

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Speaker 1: You see, Sophia was an adventurer. That means well, she

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Speaker 1: loves adventures. Do you like going on adventures? Oh? Me too.

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Speaker 1: I never pass up an opportunity to go on an adventure. Sophia.

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Speaker 1: She was extremely brave and had been planning today's adventure

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Speaker 1: for many weeks. You see, there were mountains that surrounded

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Speaker 1: Sophia's house, and one by one, she had been traveling

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Speaker 1: up and down all of the mountains, but today was

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Speaker 1: the big one, the big mountain called Cloud Mountain because

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Speaker 1: it was so tall it went through the clouds. She

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Speaker 1: grabbed all over gear, which meant snow pants and special boots,

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Speaker 1: in a very warm jacket with hat and gloves. It

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Speaker 1: was going to be a very cold adventure, but Sofia

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Speaker 1: was ready for anything. She headed out the door. She

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Speaker 1: said goodbye to her parents, and her mom handed her

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Speaker 1: a special snack for today's adventure. All right, Sophia, well

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Speaker 1: just make sure that your home before it gets dark,

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Speaker 1: and stay safe. We love you, Bye, I love you,

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Speaker 1: shouted Sophia as she started her hike up the trail.

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Speaker 1: There was a little bit of snow. It was definitely

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Speaker 1: cold and windy, but this part of the hike it

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Speaker 1: was just, you know, maybe an inch of snow. That

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Speaker 1: was easy, but it would get much much harder. After

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Speaker 1: about thirty minutes had passed, she had reached a much

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Speaker 1: higher elevation than she had begun and it was time

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Speaker 1: to pull out the snow shoes. What are snow shoes?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever walked in really deep snow before? Yeah? Well,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't snow when it gets really deep, sometimes

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Speaker 1: it can be really hard to walk through it because

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Speaker 1: you sink all the way to the bottom. And right

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Speaker 1: now the snow was getting as deep as Sofia's knees,

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Speaker 1: which made it very hard to walk through. As she

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Speaker 1: pulled out her snow shoes, she strapped them onto her

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Speaker 1: shoes and wait a second, what are snow shoes? Good question, Well,

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Speaker 1: they kind of look like a tennis racket. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: know that sounds kind of silly, but snowshoes they help

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Speaker 1: you stay above that deep snow. It works in spreading

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Speaker 1: out your weight. So imagine if you had a really

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Speaker 1: wide shoe like a tennis racket, tied onto the bottom

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Speaker 1: of your feet. That makes your surface area much bigger

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Speaker 1: and spreads out the weight across the snow so that

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Speaker 1: you can stay on top of the snow instead of

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Speaker 1: sinking all the way down, which makes walking a whole

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Speaker 1: lot easier. Sofia was sitting on an old tree as

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Speaker 1: she was strapping on these snowshoes to the bottom of

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Speaker 1: her boots. There, she said, that'll make it a whole

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Speaker 1: lot easier. Ah, I love hiking in the snow, It's

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Speaker 1: so fun. As she continued her hike up the mountain,

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Speaker 1: she was approaching the clouds. Wow, I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: They look so beautiful up here. As she was looking

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Speaker 1: around and turn it, she could see for miles. The

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Speaker 1: view she had was absolutely amazing. She could see her

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Speaker 1: house way down there, and she could even see her

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Speaker 1: friend's house. Wow, she was really high up this mountain

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Speaker 1: and could see for miles. Then she continued her hike

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Speaker 1: up towards the clouds. You see, everybody wondered what the

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Speaker 1: top of this mountain. Remember Cloud Mountain is through the clouds.

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Speaker 1: Everyone wondered what the top looked like because you couldn't

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Speaker 1: even see it because it was always in the clouds.

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Speaker 1: Sophia was determined to be one of the first to

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Speaker 1: ever see what's on the other side of the clouds.

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Speaker 1: After a quick break to eat her snack and drink water,

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Speaker 1: the hike. As she climbed your way up and pushed

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Speaker 1: her way through the clouds, she was finally to the

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Speaker 1: top of Mount Cloud. Wow, it was absolutely amazing. And

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Speaker 1: not only was it amazing, but as she looked up,

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Speaker 1: she realized how close the stars were. Holy smokes, said Sophia,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I could just reach out and grab

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Speaker 1: one of those stars. She unstrapped her snowshoes and thought

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Speaker 1: you think she could do that? Do you think you

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Speaker 1: can grab a star out of the sky. I don't

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Speaker 1: think so, but Sophia is really really high up there.

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Speaker 1: Maybe she actually can. As she knelt down and started

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Speaker 1: pretty good jumper and maybe, just maybe she could reach

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Speaker 1: one of the stars. She took a running start and

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Speaker 1: then jumped and leaped with all of her might, and

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Speaker 1: she grabbed a star out of the sky. What in

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Speaker 1: the world has She opened up her hand. Her glove

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Speaker 1: was now holding something, something that was very strange. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what is this thing? It glowed like a star, but

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Speaker 1: it was hard and it it looked almost like an egg. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I gotta take this home and check this out. Sophia

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Speaker 1: carefully placed it in her bag. She now switched out

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Speaker 1: her snow shoes for snow skis and zoomed down the mountain.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's faster to go up a mountain

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Speaker 1: or to ski down a snow mountain? Yes, it is

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Speaker 1: way faster. As Sofia is zooming down the mountain back

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Speaker 1: towards her house. As she slid to a stop in

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Speaker 1: her backyard, she couldn't wait to show her parents what

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Speaker 1: she had found. They were absolutely amazed. They had never

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Speaker 1: seen someone grab a star out of the sky. But

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Speaker 1: this was not an ordinary looking star. There's something strange

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Speaker 1: about this, Like Sophia said, it looked like an egg

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Speaker 1: and something amazing was about to happen. Sophia carefully placed

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Speaker 1: it on a pillow in her room and it still glowed.

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Speaker 1: It was like a nightlight. As she fell asleep, she

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Speaker 1: really loved the glow against the ceiling. Early the next morning,

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Speaker 1: she was awoken by a sound more. She jumped out

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Speaker 1: That ah, star egg thing that she had found up

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Speaker 1: in the sky had now hatched, and there stood before

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Speaker 1: her a tiny baby rainbow dragon. Ah. She started screaming,

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Speaker 1: and her parents raced in. What's wrong? What's wrong? Oh dear,

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Speaker 1: They couldn't believe their eyes. Sofia, stand back. They pulled

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Speaker 1: Sophia away from that dragon, but the dragon was scared

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Speaker 1: scared or something. Can I go help him, said Sophia. Okay,

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Speaker 1: from under it. He was so scared he was shaking.

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Speaker 1: It's okay, little guy, it's okay. Can we keep him?

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Speaker 1: Sophia instantly turned to her parents and begged to keep

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Speaker 1: the dragon. I totally understand. Io would do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: and it hatchedon, I would totally want to keep the dragon.

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Speaker 1: What about you? Would you want to keep a dragon? Okay, Sophia,

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Speaker 1: But it's up to you to take care of it.

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Speaker 1: It's your responsibility. They said, perfect. I'm gonna name him

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Speaker 1: Rainbow Star. And even though that's the end of our

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Speaker 1: story today, it is only just the beginning of Sophia's

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Speaker 1: amazing adventure with her new dragon friend, Rainbow Star. The end.

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Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, Tubb, it is. It's time for

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Speaker 1: kid shoutaf I want to say hello to Olivia Mica

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Speaker 1: from California, Ahana from Texas, Matteo and Devn from New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel and Zachary from Tucson, Arizona, Jack from Texas, and

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Speaker 1: Kea from Spokane, Washington. I am so glad that you're

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Speaker 1: spy team. We could not stop Doctor Stinkybreath and his

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Speaker 1: crew without you, my friends. Well, thank you again for

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Speaker 1: happy to read those every day. Well, you have a

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Speaker 1: super duper day and I will see you next time. Bye.