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Speaker 2: Me too, Let's go.

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Speaker 1: It was a cloudy but pretty nice day as THEO

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Speaker 1: was playing with his friends outside. They were at the

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Speaker 2: Seven eight, nine, ten, Ready or how do you right? Come?

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Speaker 1: Shouted THEO as he uncovered his eyes with his hands

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Speaker 1: and started to look around.

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Speaker 2: I don't see anybody. Where did they go?

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Speaker 1: He started looking around the playground, and pretty soon he

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Speaker 1: found that everybody had crawled inside of one of those

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Speaker 1: slides that's like a tube. Yeah, they were all squeezed

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Speaker 1: inside and had nowhere to go but down. I got

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Speaker 1: you all, shouted THEO, as one by one they slid

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Speaker 1: down the slide right into his hand. I guess that

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Speaker 1: that slide, said one of his friends. And then all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, drip drop, drip drop. Oh no, it's

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Speaker 1: starting to rain.

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Speaker 2: Shouted THEO.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, well, I guess we'll play more tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: said one of his friends. By THEO, they all waved

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Speaker 1: and ran their different direction and head home. THEO was

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Speaker 1: and then it just had to end all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden and unexpectedly. Oh, change can be hard, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when we're playing or doing something that we really

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Speaker 1: changes our plans, just like what happened to THEO. They

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Speaker 1: were having a ton of fun. Then that rain came

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. THEO grabbed his things and started running home.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to get completely soaked, so he ran

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Speaker 1: him at the door. As he ran up the driveway, THEO,

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Speaker 2: Playing at the park.

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Speaker 1: Ah, I'm super bummed. Oh come here, said his parents,

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Speaker 1: And they gave him a big hug and a big

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Speaker 1: to all of a sudden just change your plans, but

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Speaker 2: Come on.

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Speaker 1: His parents wrapped a towel around THEO and helped him

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Speaker 1: day did end up being really fun. They did some

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Speaker 1: cool indoor art projects. But later than the afternoon, something

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Speaker 1: amazing was about to happen to change Theo's life forever. Hey, THEO,

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Speaker 1: why don't you run upstairs and see if there's any

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Speaker 1: a great idea, said THEO. He raced over to his

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Speaker 1: room as fast as he could. He really liked playing

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Speaker 1: games and had a ton in his closet, many of

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Speaker 1: which that he had never played before, but he was

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Speaker 2: Do you like playing.

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Speaker 1: Games like board games or card games?

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Speaker 1: Those are super fun to do with your friends and family.

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Speaker 1: I have many that I love to play. What's your

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Speaker 1: favorite well. As THEO got to his room and opened

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Speaker 1: all the games to choose from. There were many, and

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Speaker 1: it was hard to pick just one. Hmm, which one

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Speaker 1: have I not played yet? THEO said to himself, Um, oh,

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Speaker 1: And as he pulled it out, he saw that there

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Speaker 2: What is that?

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Speaker 1: It must be an old instructions manual to one of

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Speaker 1: Wait a second, I've never seen something like this before,

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Speaker 1: said THEO. It was a very old looking, kind of

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Speaker 1: almost like leather. He grabbed it and that other game

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Speaker 1: to play, said THEO as he set it down on

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Speaker 1: open it up on the table and then it unrolled,

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Speaker 1: all their faces. WHOA, THEO, where did you find this?

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Speaker 1: It was back behind all of my games. I've never

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Speaker 1: seen this thing before. It was wedged all the way

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Speaker 1: back behind the dresser. All three of them leaned closer

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Speaker 1: before they all came to the same conclusion. THEO, this

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Speaker 1: looks like a treasure map, but it's not real, right,

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Speaker 1: Like this has just got to be a pretend.

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Speaker 2: One right, asked THEO.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, if it was behind that old

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Speaker 1: when we moved into the house. That dresser was was

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Speaker 1: already there. And so if you found something back behind there,

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Speaker 1: do you think this is actually real? Shouted THEO. His

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Speaker 1: eyes were very big, his hands were on the side

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Speaker 1: let's see if we can figure out, like where this

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Speaker 1: every single treasure map. Uh, it will tell you little

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Speaker 1: an old tree or a lake. There's all kinds of

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Speaker 1: different things. Those are called landmarks that someone would put

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Speaker 1: where the treasure is. Are those three stones right there?

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Speaker 1: Theo's finger was pointing to the edge of the map,

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Speaker 1: and there were three big like kind of wobbly circles

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Speaker 1: the treasure map is talking about, asked THEO. That's actually

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Speaker 1: probably true. You're right right next to the park. Are

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Speaker 1: those three big rocks, and they look just like these

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Speaker 2: I want to go check it out.

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Speaker 1: Can I put on some boots in a rain jacket

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Speaker 1: and go to the park and see if there's really

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Speaker 1: you can do that. Just make sure, hey, you put

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Speaker 1: on your boots and rain jacket and maybe an umbrella too.

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Speaker 2: Just stay dry and don't get too mundy.

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Speaker 1: They barely finished their sentence before THEO ran off to

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Speaker 1: What started off as you know, it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: hard day because of the changing of the plans has

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Speaker 1: turned into possibly one of Theo's greatest days ever. Will

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Speaker 1: he discover a treasure? Is this map reel or is

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Speaker 1: it just an old piece of paper? I'm not sure,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna have to wait and see what happens

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Speaker 1: on the next episode of Kids Short Stories. Hey friends,

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Speaker 1: I need your help selling of birthday drum roll please,

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday.

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Speaker 2: Liberty is turning five years old.

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Speaker 1: Liberty is an amazing gymnast, loves to dance and it's

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Speaker 1: pretty hilarious.

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Speaker 2: So I hear. That's so cool, Liberty.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrated you and your

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Speaker 1: big day on the show. Happy fifth birthday, Liberty. Well,

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Speaker 1: my friends, I hope you all have.

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Speaker 2: A superdue birthday and I.

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Speaker 1: Will see you on our next adventure.

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Speaker 2: Bye,