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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is brought

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Speaker 1: to us by one of our listeners who left a

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Speaker 1: review on her Apple podcast. And guess what, it's her birthday.

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Speaker 1: Everyone say happy birthday, Sloan. Wow, I can't believe that

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Speaker 1: you are six now, that's huge. That's really you're getting old.

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Speaker 1: And she had an idea for a story and it's

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Speaker 1: so cool. It's about Oh wait, I can't tell you.

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Speaker 1: It's a surprise. Are you ready for the story? Me too?

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Speaker 1: Let's go one morning, slow up and came downstairs to

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Speaker 1: eat some breakfast. Every morning she would eat her favorite

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Speaker 1: breakfast and listen to her favorite stories from her favorite podcast.

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Speaker 1: It was a great morning. And this one morning when

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Speaker 1: she was listening to this one story, the story was

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Speaker 1: talking about a unicorn that lived up on a mountain

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Speaker 1: that was pretty close to her house, and that the

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Speaker 1: unicorn had this magical cake that it made. It was

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Speaker 1: a glitter cake and something magical would happen if you

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Speaker 1: ate it. And she thought that was amazing. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: she said, there's you're telling me there's a unicorn up

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Speaker 1: on the mountain right by her house. She looked up

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Speaker 1: to her parents and said I've got to go check

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Speaker 1: and see if this is real. And everyone said, so, honey,

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Speaker 1: I think that's just the story. I think I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's real or not. But don't get your

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Speaker 1: hopes up, Okay, She said, Oh no, I'm very sure

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Speaker 1: it's got to be real because it's the mountain right

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Speaker 1: by her house and it talks about unicorns and magical

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Speaker 1: cake and I gotta go see if it's real. Sloane

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Speaker 1: put her shoes on and hiked outside of the backyard

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Speaker 1: to look where the mountain was. There was Mount Montgomery.

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Speaker 1: There it is. That is the mountain where the unicorns live.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Sloan started hiking up the mountain Mount Montgomery.

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Speaker 1: She started to imagine, I wonder what kind of like

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Speaker 1: our unicorns? Nice? Or do you think they talk? Or

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Speaker 1: do you think are they soft? She had a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions about unicorns because she's never seen one in

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Speaker 1: real life, but she always dreamt of it, and today

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Speaker 1: she was going to find one. So the further she

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Speaker 1: hiked up the trail that got colder and colder. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a good thing that I brought a hat

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Speaker 1: and gloves and a jacket. Wow, it's getting cold the snow.

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Speaker 1: There was about one inch of snow on the ground

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Speaker 1: and it was pretty cold, and the high or she hiked,

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Speaker 1: the more snow there was. But then wait, all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the snow didn't look white anymore. That's weird,

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Speaker 1: she said. It's it has kind of like a sparkly

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Speaker 1: pink glow on the top of the snow. That's really strange.

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Speaker 1: They have strange snow up here. And she kept hiking

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Speaker 1: further and further, and all of a sudden, she said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: my gosh, that is definitely not normal snow. It is

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Speaker 1: covered in pink glitter and purple swirls. And this is

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Speaker 1: the coolest snow I've ever seen. Oh my gosh, I

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Speaker 1: gotta take all my friends here. This is so cool.

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Speaker 1: Further up she hiked, she started to imagine. I wonder

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Speaker 1: what unicorns like to eat. And she kept hiking. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, a little animal popped out of the snow. Hello,

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Speaker 1: oh hello, what's what's your name? My name squirrel. This

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Speaker 1: little squirrel was a purple squirrel with yellow rings around

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Speaker 1: its tail. Sloan said, um, oh hi, I've I've never

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Speaker 1: met a talking squirrel before. What are you doing up here.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, our liver pulure broke thrill questions, what are

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Speaker 1: you during up pure don Sloan said, well, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: very sorry. I heard a story about a magical unicorn

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Speaker 1: that lived up here that that would make magical cakes,

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Speaker 1: and I know that sounds ridiculous, but I just had

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Speaker 1: to climb up this mountain to check and see if

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Speaker 1: it was real or not. The squirrel's eyes shifted back

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Speaker 1: and forth. He looked very suspicious. Um, it's just you

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Speaker 1: that are coming or other other people. Oh, it's just me, Sunset.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry. It's it's secret. I won't is Are you

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Speaker 1: worried about that more people will come? Yeah? Well, Lucy,

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Speaker 1: my boss doesn't like a lot of people coming up

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Speaker 1: here because Caesar fredbub everyone or the cake. Did you

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Speaker 1: say your boss is worried about people coming up here

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Speaker 1: and eating all the cakes? So it's real? Well I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Oh my gosh, who's your boss? Is your

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Speaker 1: boss a unicorn? Like a real one? I can't answer

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Speaker 1: that question. That's a secret, Sloan. I couldn't believe her mind.

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Speaker 1: She got so threated. She said, Okay, Mr Squirrel, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Mr squirrely. Um, I promise I won't cause any problems.

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Speaker 1: But can I keep hiking up? Because I think I'm

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Speaker 1: getting closer because the snow is getting more sparklier and

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Speaker 1: pinker and purple er? Can I keep going? Well, you

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Speaker 1: have to answer a one question? Are you witty? Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, what happens if I get it wrong? Then

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Speaker 1: you have to go back home? You cannot go? See?

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Speaker 1: Oh there you I'm in my boss up the mountain. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what's the question? Squirreling jumped on Sloan's shoulder and whispered

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Speaker 1: in her ear. What is your favorite favor of cake?

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Speaker 1: Sloan kind of giggled. She thought the question would be

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Speaker 1: a little more serious. Um, my favorite is rainbow. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can go. I guess she got it right. I

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Speaker 1: guess the answer was rainbow flavor. That's awesome. And so

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Speaker 1: Sloan kept hiking up the mountain, and pretty soon the

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Speaker 1: snow was not just a little glittery and a little purple,

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Speaker 1: but all the snow was pink and purple and yellow,

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Speaker 1: and like all the colors, it was like a swirly

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Speaker 1: rainbowie cotton candied snow. It was unbelievable. And pretty soon

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Speaker 1: there it is. There it was. The unicorn was just

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Speaker 1: standing there baking a cake. What this is real, Sloan said,

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Speaker 1: And she walked over to the unicorn and said hello, why,

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Speaker 1: hello there. The unicorn said, you have made quite the

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Speaker 1: journey up here. Would you like to taste this magical

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Speaker 1: rainbow cake? And Sloan said, uh yeah, and I have

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Speaker 1: like a million questions for you, um, but uh yes,

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Speaker 1: I I we can just eat cake. And as she

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Speaker 1: took one bite of the cake, whoa, whoa, whoa, Sloan

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Speaker 1: started to float in the air above the mountain and

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Speaker 1: over the unicorn. It was very scary. Get me down

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Speaker 1: from me, Sloan said, and the rain rainbow unicorn said,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. Just wave your arms back and forth and

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Speaker 1: it will help you fly. Are you kidding me? I

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Speaker 1: can fly? And Sloan waved her arms back and forth

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Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, she could fly. This is the

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Speaker 1: best birthday ever. Yeah, A little surprised. It was Sloan's

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Speaker 1: birthday today and so this magical unicorn rainbow cake was

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Speaker 1: perfect for her birthday. She couldn't wait to go home

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Speaker 1: and tell everybody about this. And she said as she

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Speaker 1: landed softly back on the rainbow cotton candy snow. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, miss Unicorn. Um, I need to go

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Speaker 1: back home because my family is probably freaking out because

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Speaker 1: I've been gone a long time. Um, but I know

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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be a secret, But can I bring

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Speaker 1: anyone else up here? And the unicorn said, well, it's

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Speaker 1: a secret, and so only your best friends and only

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Speaker 1: people you love very very much. If you trust them,

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Speaker 1: then you can bring them back. And Sloan blinked her

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Speaker 1: was back in her bed. What was this all a dream?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Ah? She was a little disappointed,

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Speaker 1: but then she wait, she looked down at her hands

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Speaker 1: and they were covered in glitter. And she ran over

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Speaker 1: to a mirror and looked in her face had like

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Speaker 1: glitter frosting on it. Oh, my gosh, Sloan said, that

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Speaker 1: was not a dream. The end