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Speaker 1: Thank you. It has been a while since I have

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Speaker 1: shared a Raggedy Ann story. Oh, I thought I would

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Speaker 1: find another to share with you. This story is about

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Speaker 1: an adventure that Raggedy Ann has one day when painters

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Speaker 1: come to Marcella's house to paint the nursery where all

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Speaker 1: the dolls live. Raggedy Ann dances and plays with one

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Speaker 1: of the young painters, but the day does not end

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Speaker 1: as nicely as she had hoped. Raggedy Ann and the painter.

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Speaker 1: When house cleaning time came around, Marcella's mama decided that

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Speaker 1: she would have the nursery repainted and new paper put

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Speaker 1: upon the walls. That was why all the dolls happened

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Speaker 1: to be laid every which way upon one of the

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Speaker 1: high shelves. Marcella had been in to look at them

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Speaker 1: and wished to put them to bed, but as the

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Speaker 1: painters were coming again in the early morning, Mama thought

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Speaker 1: it best that their beds were piled in the closet.

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Speaker 1: So the dolls beds were piled into the closet, one

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Speaker 1: on top of another, and the dolls were placed upon

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Speaker 1: the high shelf. When all was quiet that night, Raggedy Ann,

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Speaker 1: who was at the bottom of the pile of dolls,

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Speaker 1: getting squished as flat as a pancake, said Raggedy Ann,

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Speaker 1: And although the tin soldier was piled so that his

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Speaker 1: foot was pressed in to Raggedy's face, she still wore

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Speaker 1: her customary smile. So the dolls began moving off to

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Speaker 1: one side until Raggedy Ann was free to sit up. Ah,

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Speaker 1: that's a great deal better, she said, stretching her arms

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Speaker 1: patting her dress into shape. Well, I'll be glad when

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Speaker 1: morning comes, she said finally, or I know Marcella will

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Speaker 1: take us out in the yard and play with us

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Speaker 1: under the trees. So the dolls sat and talked until daylight.

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Speaker 1: When the painters came to work. One of the painters,

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Speaker 1: a young fellow, seeing the dolls, reached up and took

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann down from the shelf. Look at this rag doll, Jim,

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Speaker 1: he said to one of the other painters. She's a beauty.

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Speaker 1: And he took Raggedy Ann by the hands and danced

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Speaker 1: with her while he whistled a lively tune. Raggedy Ann's

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Speaker 1: The other doll sat upon the shelf and looked straight ahead.

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Speaker 1: Or it would never do to let grown up men

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Speaker 1: know that dolls were really alive. Better put her back

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Speaker 1: upon the shelf, said one of the other men. You'll

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Speaker 1: have the little girl after you. Chances are that she

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Speaker 1: likes that old rag doll better than any of the others.

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Speaker 1: But the young painter twisted Raggedy Ann into funny positions

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Speaker 1: and laughed and laughed as she looped about. Finally he

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Speaker 1: This was great fun for Raggedy and as she sailed

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Speaker 1: up by the shelf, the dolls all smiled at her,

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Speaker 1: for it pleased them whenever Raggedy Ann was happy. But

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Speaker 1: the young fellow threw Raggedy Ann up into the air

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Speaker 1: once too often, and when she came down, he failed

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Speaker 1: to catch her, and she came down splash head first

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Speaker 1: into a bucket of oily paint. I told you, said

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Speaker 1: My goodness, I didn't mean to do it, said the

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Speaker 1: young fellow. What had I better do with her? Better

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Speaker 1: put her back on the shelf, replied the other. So

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Speaker 1: Raggedy was placed back upon the shelf, and the paint

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Speaker 1: After breakfast, Marcella came into the nursery and saw Raggedy

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Speaker 1: Ann all covered with paint, and she began crying. The

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Speaker 1: young painter felt sorry and told her how it had happened.

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Speaker 1: If you will let me, he said, I will take

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Speaker 1: her home with me and we'll clean her up tonight

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Speaker 1: and we'll bring her back the day after tomorrow. So

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Speaker 1: Raggedy was wrapped in a newspaper that evening and carried away.

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Speaker 1: All the dolls felt sad that night without Raggedy Ann

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Speaker 1: near them. Poor Raggedy I could have cried when I

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Speaker 1: saw her all covered with paint, said the French doll.

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Speaker 1: She didn't look like our dear old Raggedy Ann at all,

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Speaker 1: said the tin soldier, who wiped the tears from his

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Speaker 1: arms and rust them. The paint covered her lovely smile

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Speaker 1: her shoe button eyes, said another doll. And so the

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Speaker 1: dolls talked that night and the next, but in the daytime,

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Speaker 1: second day, Raggedy was brought home, and the dolls were

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Speaker 1: all anxiou for night to come so that they could

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Speaker 1: see and talk with Raggedy Ann. At last the painters left,

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Speaker 1: and placed Raggedy Ann on the shelf with the other dolls.

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Speaker 1: Tell us all about it, Raggedy dear, the dolls cried. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I am so glad I fell in the paint, cried

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann, after she had hugged all the dolls, for

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Speaker 1: I have had the happiest time. The painter took me

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Speaker 1: home and told his mama, how I happened to be

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Speaker 1: a rag and wiped off my shoe button eyes, And

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Speaker 1: then I saw that she was a very pretty sweet

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Speaker 1: faced lady, and she got some cleaner and wiped up

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Speaker 1: most of the paint on my face. But you know,

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Speaker 1: raggedy Ann continued, The paint had soaked through my rag

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Speaker 1: head and had made the cotton inside all sticky and soggy.

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Speaker 1: And I could not think clearly, and my yarn hair

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Speaker 1: was all matted with paint. So the kind lady took

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Speaker 1: off my yarn hair and opened my stitches and took

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Speaker 1: out all the paint in the cotton. Oh, it was

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Speaker 1: a great relief, although it felt strange at first, and

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Speaker 1: my thoughts seemed scattered. She left me in her work

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Speaker 1: line the next morning when she had washed the last

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Speaker 1: the what do you think happened? We could never guess.

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Speaker 1: All the dolls cried why A dear little Jenny Wren

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Speaker 1: came and picked enough cotton out of me to make

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Speaker 1: a cute, little cuddly nest in the grape arbor. Oh

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Speaker 1: wasn't that sweet? Cried all the dolls. Yes, indeed it was,

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Speaker 1: replied raggedy Ann. It made me very happy. Then when

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Speaker 1: the lady took me in the house again, she stuffed

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Speaker 1: me with lovely, nice new cotton all the way from

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Speaker 1: my knees up, and sewed me up, and put new

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Speaker 1: yarn on my head for hair. And and oh, and

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Speaker 1: it's a secret, said raggedy Ann. Oh tell us the secret,

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Speaker 1: cried all the dolls as they pressed closer to Raggedy Well,

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Speaker 1: I know you will not tell anyone who will not

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Speaker 1: a bit larger, said raggedy Ann. The dolls all said

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Speaker 1: that Raggedy Ann's smile was indeed a quarter of an

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Speaker 1: inch wider on each side. When the dear lady put

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Speaker 1: She went to the cupboard and came back with a

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Speaker 1: fifteen little candy hearts with words on them, and she

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Speaker 1: hunted through the candy hearts until she found a beautiful

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Speaker 1: red one which she sewed up in me with the cotton.

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Speaker 1: So that is the secret, and that is why I

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Speaker 1: am so happy. Feel here, said Raggedy Ann. All the

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Speaker 1: dolls could feel Raggedy Ann's beautiful new candy heart, and

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Speaker 1: they were very happy for her. After all had hugged

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Speaker 1: each other good night and had cuddled up for the night,

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Speaker 1: the tin soldier asked, did you have a chance to

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Speaker 1: see what the words on your new candy heart were?

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Speaker 1: Raggedy Ann? Oh yes, replied raggedy Ann. I was so happy.

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Speaker 1: I forgot to tell you. It had printed upon it

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Speaker 1: in nice blue letters.

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Speaker 2: I love you, said, good night. Sleep tight, so let's sleep,

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Speaker 2: said your.

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Speaker 3: I. I love so, and call me by your name.

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Speaker 3: Start I love We can be branded anything. I'll a