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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story is brought to us by shl

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Speaker 1: like parents. S like toys go where kids go, and

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Speaker 1: this summer that means playcation. So join in the summer

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Speaker 1: fun which like and you could win a whole year

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Speaker 1: worth of toys. Dive into the fun today at summer

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Speaker 1: playcation dot com. In today's story, we learn about how

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Speaker 1: s like toys go where kids go. In something crazy

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Speaker 1: happens with one of our s like toys, the Lava Dragon.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to hear an adventurer about the Lava

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Speaker 1: Dragon toy and the day it came to life? Me too?

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Speaker 1: Let's go. The sun was just beginning to say as

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Speaker 1: Maya and Gavin, to energetic siblings embarked on a family

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Speaker 1: road trip in their beloved minivan. Oh I love minivan

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Speaker 1: road trips. Their parents nestled in the front seat saying

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Speaker 1: along to their favorite songs, while Maya and Gavin laid

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Speaker 1: in the back their assortment of toys. Gavin's favorite was

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Speaker 1: his like toy Lava Dragon, a fierce yet friendly creature

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Speaker 1: with fire red skin and rocky spikes. It was time

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Speaker 1: for a rest stop. They had been driving for several

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Speaker 1: hours towards their grandparents' house, and it was almost time

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Speaker 1: for lunch. Have you ever been on a road trip

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Speaker 1: before where you're driving many, many hours? And yeah, it

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Speaker 1: feels good to take a break after driving several hours. Right, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's so good to get out of the car, stretched

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Speaker 1: Gavin as he waved his hands up above his head

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Speaker 1: and wiggled his legs. Yeah, Gavin. Who, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how much longer I could have lasted, said Maya. Ah,

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Speaker 1: the sun and fresh air is exactly what I needed. Hey, Maya,

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Speaker 1: can you pass me that bag of pretzels? Let's go

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Speaker 1: That's a great idea, Gavin said, Maya, Let's go. Maya

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Speaker 1: and Gavin grabbed all of their lunch things and found

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Speaker 1: the rest stop. They were stopping here to eat their

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Speaker 1: lunch and just take a break and smell that fresh air.

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Speaker 1: After about ten minutes, their family climbed back into their

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Speaker 1: minivan and their mom leaned back to remind them, Gavin, Maya,

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Speaker 1: make sure that you don't forget anything here? Who no,

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Speaker 1: shouted Gavin, What is it, Gavin? Did you lose something?

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Speaker 1: Said their mom. Yes, so he just remembered that we

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Speaker 1: did bring something out of the van and we didn't

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Speaker 1: our lunch? Yeah, no, because uh we ate it all hilarious, Gavin,

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Speaker 1: But technically it's still with us. It's just in our stomachs.

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Speaker 1: All right, you two close the doors, buckle up, and

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Speaker 1: let's get back on the road. Only three more hours

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Speaker 1: to go. Gavin leaned forward to grab onto the door

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Speaker 1: and pull it shut. However, unbeknownst to Gavin, his cherished

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Speaker 1: lava dragon toy humbled out of the car as the

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Speaker 1: door closed. Meanwhile, two Purple Ninjas happened to be on

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Speaker 1: a road trip for themselves. Oh well, it was Actually

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Speaker 1: they were on their way to Villain Con. That's the

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Speaker 1: world's most prestigious bad guy convention, to showcase their latest invention,

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Speaker 1: a laser that could bring inanimate objects to life. Ohoh,

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Speaker 1: I wonder what they could be planning with that. We

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Speaker 1: need to pull over.

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Speaker 2: Why, Steve, We just started driving like fifteen minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: But hey, they have to go to the bathroom.

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Speaker 2: You didn't go before we left. I didn't have to

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Speaker 2: go yet, Okay, but it better be fast. We can't

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Speaker 2: be late for a villain could.

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Speaker 1: The Purple Ninjas pulled off at the next rest up,

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Speaker 1: and Steve ran out as fast as he could for

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Speaker 1: the bathroom. Edwin was not very happy Steve's emergency bathroom break.

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Speaker 1: Only fifteen minutes into their drive back on the highway,

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Speaker 1: when the family had resumed their journey, Gavin reached for

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Speaker 1: His eyes widened in panic as he realized what had happened.

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Speaker 1: It's gone, It's gone, what's gone? Gavin said, Maya, my love,

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Speaker 1: a dragon? Gavin? Are you sure I saw you left

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Speaker 1: it in here when we went out to eat our

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Speaker 3: I put it right here and it must have fallen

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Speaker 1: With a tear filled plea. He convinced his parents to

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Speaker 1: in search of the lava dragon. Meanwhile, back at the

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Speaker 1: to finish his emergency bathroom break, and something caught his eye.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, this is a pretty cool toy. Steve has

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Speaker 2: gonna love this.

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Speaker 1: Steve's gonna love what.

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Speaker 2: Oh you're back? How muck? When I felt laying right

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Speaker 1: Whoa, that's so? How can I have it?

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Speaker 2: Here's Steve here? You go.

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Speaker 1: Wow? Do you think the laser would work on it?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no no no. Hold and the boss said,

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Speaker 2: we can't use the laser until we get there with him.

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Speaker 2: Remember he's already at the convention and he's waiting for us.

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Speaker 2: Come on, let's get back in the car and get driving.

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Speaker 1: Steve couldn't help himself and his curiosity.

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Speaker 3: Oh dear.

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Speaker 1: He snuck the laser while Edwin was buckling his seatbelt

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Speaker 1: and set the toy on the parking lot ground. Steve

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Speaker 3: The LoVa dragon sprung to life and grew to a

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Speaker 3: colossal size. The once calm Restop erupted into chaos. The bystanders,

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Speaker 3: you know, the people this started screaming and running all

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Speaker 3: over the place like a very angry ant hill.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you ever step on an ant hill,

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Speaker 1: don't step on fire ant hills because they bite. But

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Speaker 1: ants you know they go crazy. That is what these

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Speaker 1: people look like in this parking lot. Steve, what did

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Speaker 1: you do? I just wanted to come alive. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know it's gonna turn it to monster size.

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Speaker 2: Let me look at that.

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Speaker 1: Edwin grabbed the laser blaster out of Steve's hand and

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Speaker 1: pointed to a button.

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Speaker 2: You had it on supersized mode.

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Speaker 1: What supernice mode?

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Speaker 2: What do you think it as? Uh, Steve, O, we

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Speaker 2: we gotta get out of here. Get in the car now,

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Speaker 2: Who miss you love me drinking? Steve? You had it

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Speaker 2: for like thirty seconds. How are you going to miss

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Speaker 2: it already? Oh? Whatever, come on, let's.

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Speaker 1: Get out of here. Just then, the family car pulled

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Speaker 1: back into the rest stop. As the Purple Ninjas zoomed

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Speaker 1: back on to the highway in their car, Gavin's mouth

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Speaker 1: dropped open at the sight of the monstrous love a monster.

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Speaker 1: Covin shouted, Maya, there's a monster. Their parents started shouting

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Speaker 1: and trying to drive the car away as fast as

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Speaker 1: they could as they all now saw the ginormous monster

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Speaker 4: That's my toy, that's my lama dragon it's scared and

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Speaker 4: it needs my help. What are you talking about, Gavin

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Speaker 4: said his mom. How did this happen? I don't know, mom,

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Speaker 1: Need to do. Yeahkevin, me too, said Maya. You're right?

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Speaker 1: Are you thinking about the slushies inside? Slushies? Said their mom?

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Speaker 1: How can you do be thinking about slushies at a

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Speaker 1: time like this. Despite all the chaos, Maya and Gavin

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Speaker 1: knew they had to act fast. They were the only

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Speaker 1: ones who truly understood this lava dragon toy. Weh uh,

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Speaker 1: it's not quite a toy anymore. It's more like a

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Speaker 1: sh like monster. But even though everyone was running away

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Speaker 1: in terror, they both knew it was still just Gavin's

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Speaker 1: toy at heart. You would just need to be reminded

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Speaker 1: of that. Maya and Gavin watched in disbelief as the

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Speaker 1: monstrous lava dragon terrorized the area. However, they both had

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Speaker 1: remembered a detail from all their playtimes. The lava dragon

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Speaker 1: toy would always calm down when it was cold. During

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Speaker 1: their playtimes, Gavin would always pretend to feed the lava

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Speaker 1: dragon his favorite toy food, a cooling berry. This would

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Speaker 1: actually help the lava dragon fall asleep and take a nap. Maya,

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Speaker 1: do you think the slushies at the gas station rest

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Speaker 1: at home. It's our only chance, answered Maya. Without wasting

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Speaker 1: another moment, they darted towards the rest stop gas station,

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Speaker 1: watched in bewilderment as the siblings raced against time. Inside,

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Speaker 1: Maya quickly ordered the largest chilly cherry slushy that she could. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Gavin searched for something to represent the cooling berry at home.

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Speaker 1: He always used a little bead, but now that the

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Speaker 1: toy is a ginormous monster, he's gonna need something a

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Speaker 1: little bit bigger than a bead. Luckily, he found a

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Speaker 1: large round balloon, filling it with the slushy, they now

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Speaker 1: had a giant cooling berry. Gavin held the giant slushy

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Speaker 1: out to it as he would during their playtimes.

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Speaker 5: It's me, Gavin, I have a cooling berry for you, regnant,

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Speaker 5: The lava dragon appeared to be.

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Speaker 1: Talking to the boy. I don't know what he was saying,

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Speaker 1: but at the scent of the cooling berry, he bent

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Speaker 1: down curiously. He took a deep breath and smelled. Gavin

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Speaker 1: tossed the balloon into the open mouth of the lava Dragon.

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Speaker 1: The dragon swallowed it whole, and instantly a cool blue

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Speaker 1: streak started to spread from its core, replacing the fiery

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Speaker 1: red in. It let out a big y as it

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Speaker 1: slowly shrank down to its original toy size.

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Speaker 6: The crowd let out a big cheer, and Maya and

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Speaker 6: Gavin shared a triumphant high five. We did it, Gavin,

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Speaker 6: Holy Smokes, Lava Dragon, How did this happen?

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Speaker 1: He said, as he held the now toy in his hands.

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Speaker 1: The two kids climbed back in their minivan, Gavin cradling

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Speaker 1: his lava Dragon toy closely, very grateful for its return.

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Speaker 1: And even though their road trip had taken a very

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Speaker 1: unexpected turn, Maya and Gavin had saved the day, armed

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Speaker 1: with their creativity and a jumbo slushy the end, Holy Smokes, friends,

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Speaker 1: wasn't that an epic adventure? Well, barons s like toys

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Speaker 1: go where kids, let's go, and this summer that means playcation.

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Speaker 1: Join in the summer fun with schlike, and you could

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Speaker 1: win a whole year worth of toys. Yes, an entire

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Speaker 1: year worth of toys. Wow. Dive into the fun today

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Speaker 1: at summerplaycation dot com or check down in the show

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Speaker 1: notes below to see how you can enter to win

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Speaker 1: a year worth of toys.