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Speaker 1: Welcome to Lively Lewis Stories.

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Speaker 2: Buckle up because you're about to join Levi and Ivy

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Speaker 2: on an adventure. All you need is your imagination an

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Speaker 2: off we go, Reavey, Larius Stories, Levi. I'll be upstairs

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Speaker 2: to check your room in five minutes. You hear me

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Speaker 2: five minutes, called Levi's mom from downstairs. Please try to

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Speaker 2: do your best. I don't want everything just shoved in

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Speaker 2: your closet. Liked last time, No problem, Mom, answered Levi

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Speaker 2: with a smirk. You won't believe what my room looks

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Speaker 2: like when.

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Speaker 1: You see it.

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Speaker 2: So Levi continued his cleaning, which just meant stuffing anything

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Speaker 2: he didn't have a place for under his bed.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, his mom never checked under his bed.

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Speaker 2: So he thought, why not use it as a hiding

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Speaker 2: place for all the stuff that was fluttering.

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Speaker 1: Up his room.

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Speaker 2: He would clean under his bed at some point, he

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Speaker 2: always told himself, so he didn't really think it was

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Speaker 2: a problem. Levi was a wonderful son and a great brother.

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Speaker 2: No one could argue that, but he wasn't exactly the

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Speaker 2: most organized, neat, or tidy one in the house. His

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Speaker 2: desk at school was declared a disaster area by his teacher,

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Speaker 2: and his backpack was always busting at the seams with

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Speaker 2: papers and folders and half eaten ham sandwiches. He would

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Speaker 2: stuff inside week after week. So after hearing that, you

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Speaker 2: can imagine what his room looked like, which held way

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Speaker 2: more stuff than his school desk or his backpack. Levi

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Speaker 2: liked lots of things in his room. Reflected that he

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Speaker 2: had buckets of blocks, all different kinds of sports equipment,

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Speaker 2: many toys. Every week, his mom would take a look

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Speaker 2: at his room and Ivy's to make sure they were

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Speaker 2: staying clean and organized. Ivy's room check never lasted more

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Speaker 2: than a few moments. Mom would give a quick look

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Speaker 2: around from the doorway and always say what a marvelous

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Speaker 2: job Ivy did. Her dolls were always perfectly seated on

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Speaker 2: a shelf, Her crans, markers and color pencils were always

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Speaker 2: nestled in their special labeled containers. Even her clothes were

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Speaker 2: all neatly folded in her drawers. That's one thing Levi

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Speaker 2: could never understand, Ivy, Why do you spend so much

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Speaker 2: time folding your clothes? You just put them in a

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Speaker 2: drawer and no one sees them anyways, Levi asked, as

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Speaker 2: he took a shirt from the laundry basket, wadded it

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Speaker 2: Ivey would never understand why Levi didn't want everything neat

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Speaker 2: much easier to find, Ivey said, and doing it your

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Speaker 1: I have to get back to my room now. Mom

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Speaker 1: will be up soon.

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Speaker 2: Levi I didn't care much about wrinkled clothes. He would

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Speaker 2: rather get his chores done quickly and head outside to play.

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Speaker 2: But today, like any other room check day, Levi couldn't

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Speaker 2: go out of his room until it was deemed totally

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Speaker 2: tidy by his mom. Levi finished up a few things

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Speaker 2: as he heard his mom walking down the hall. She

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Speaker 2: could hear her giving her a report. Great job, Ivy,

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Speaker 2: everything looks amazing, said Ivey's mom. Ivy always proudly open

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Speaker 1: Your room is always.

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Speaker 2: Super super tidy, her mom said, as she turned to

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Speaker 2: walk to Levi's room. Are you ready, she asked Levia

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Speaker 2: as she walked through the door.

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Speaker 1: Of course, just like every week, smiled Levi. Hmm hmmm,

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Speaker 2: She opened his drawers, and while they weren't as neat

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Speaker 2: She looked at his bookshelf, and while his books weren't

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Speaker 2: them weren't upside down. Then she walked cautiously over to

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Speaker 1: And pulled the door open.

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Speaker 2: You can open your eyes, mob, Levi laughed, Nothing's gonna

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Speaker 1: It's better than I thought.

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Speaker 2: Levi was very excited to hear that that meant he

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Speaker 1: Totally tidy.

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Speaker 2: She was quiet for a minute, walked slowly around his

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Speaker 2: said it's not the neatest room I've ever seen, but

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Speaker 2: Just try to work a little harder next time, Okay, buddy.

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Speaker 2: Levi took that as a win and told his mom

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Speaker 2: she would be even more impressed next week. Levi quickly

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Speaker 2: reached his arm under his bed to grab his favorite

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Speaker 2: down the street. But for some reason, there was nothing there.

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Speaker 2: That's weird, Levi I thought, I just put it under there. Whatever,

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Speaker 2: I'll just grab my baseball bat instead and head down.

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Speaker 1: To the field to play. Levi reached his arm back

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Speaker 2: Bed, but couldn't fill a thing. He knew he had

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Speaker 2: his binoculars, a half eaten bag of popcorn, his stuffed

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Speaker 2: toy mister top Hat hippo, and tons of school page

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Speaker 2: Where did everything go? Levi decided he needed to take

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Speaker 2: put his head all the way under his bed. What

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Speaker 2: he saw could not be explained. There was nothing nothing

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Speaker 2: at all. No robot, no baseball bat, no popcorn, no

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Speaker 2: he couldn't explain. It was a hole, a giant hole

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Speaker 2: was dark, but he could see a little bit of

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Speaker 2: light at the bottom. Hello, Levi called out. His voice echoed,

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Speaker 2: Lucky for him, there was a mattress at the bottom of.

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Speaker 1: The hole, which broke his fall.

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Speaker 2: In fact, it was his mattress, well, or at least

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Speaker 2: it looked like it to him. It had the same

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Speaker 2: dino sheets and comfy pillow. Where am i, Levi thought

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Speaker 2: to himself. It looked like his room, but very, very different.

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Speaker 2: It was like being in a fantasy world. All the

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Speaker 1: It felt like like.

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Speaker 2: Jello ew Levi shouted, what is going on? Then he

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Speaker 2: saw his binoculars, but when he looked through them, he

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Speaker 2: could see all the way into outer space. He tossed

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Speaker 2: a giant bag of popcorn. But as you might imagine,

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Speaker 2: it wasn't any ordinary popcorn.

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Speaker 1: This popcorn was alive. Oh buddy, where are you stepping

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Speaker 1: the pieces of popcorn? Called out, We're on our way

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Speaker 2: Levi stood there just staring at the popcorn bag with

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Speaker 2: his mouth wide open. He was completely speechless. Wow, you

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Speaker 2: think he'd never seen a giant bag of tucking popcorn before,

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Speaker 2: muttered the popcorn As he walked by Levian out.

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Speaker 1: Of the room.

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Speaker 2: Levi was getting a little nervous and kind of wanted

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Speaker 2: also a little curious as to what else he would

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Speaker 2: to wait too long to find out. Levi shuffled around

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Speaker 1: But the papers, like everything else, weren't normal. They could fly,

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Speaker 2: Would do so as Levi walked around. As he ducked

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Speaker 2: from just outside the door. And you might be able

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Speaker 2: to guess who Levi saw next. Yep, that's right, mister

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Speaker 2: top hat hippo. Looking quite a bit bigger than he

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Speaker 2: walked right over to Levi.

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Speaker 1: Hi, yell, Levi, he said, when.

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Speaker 2: The bag of popcorn told me you were here, I

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Speaker 1: Well, and thank you. Thank you, replied Levi, what do

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Speaker 1: you mean, what did I do? It's because of you

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Speaker 1: that this whole world exists, began mister top haf hippo.

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Speaker 2: You've been storing things under your bed for so long

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Speaker 1: It's really great and lots of fun.

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Speaker 2: Since you're kind of a slob, sorry to say you

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Speaker 2: He was sad that all his things felt overlooked and

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Speaker 2: meant to make you feel underappreciated. I love all the

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Speaker 2: Is there anyway that you and everything else would would.

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Speaker 2: Mister top hat Hippo thought about it for a bit

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Speaker 2: and decided to have a meeting with the rest of

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Speaker 2: little while, and then came back to give Levi their answer. Levi, I,

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Speaker 2: although we've loved our time in this world we've created

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Speaker 2: promised just to keep.

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Speaker 1: Things a little bit neatter.

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Speaker 2: Just put us back in our proper places, so we'll

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Speaker 2: be right there waiting for you next time you need us,

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Speaker 2: said mister top hat Hippo. Yeah, said the giant bag

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Speaker 2: of popcorn. It's just a respect thing, Levi I understood completely.

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Speaker 2: He promised he would meeten up his room and keep

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Speaker 2: it that way, giving all of his things a nice

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Speaker 1: We believe you, Levi said.

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Speaker 2: Mister top Hat Hippo and all the other things from

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Speaker 2: Once they were there, all back to normal and no

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Speaker 2: longer talking, Levi decided it was time to.

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Speaker 1: Make a big change.

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Speaker 2: He stayed in his room all day, cleaning, organizing, and

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Speaker 2: making a place for all the things he loved so much.

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Speaker 2: He was there for so long his mom couldn't help

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Speaker 2: but check on him. Her face when she walked into

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Speaker 2: his room was one of pure amazement.

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Speaker 1: Levi, I have never seen your room this tidy. It

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Speaker 1: looks amazing. I would say, this is beyond totally tidy.

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Speaker 2: Levi smiled and looked at mister top Hat Hippo, who

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Speaker 2: was sitting in a place of honor on his bed.

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Speaker 2: Levi was so happy with the decision he made to

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Speaker 2: clean his room the right way. Now he would be

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Speaker 2: able to enjoy all the wonderful things and know that

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