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Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit

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Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas

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Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd

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Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes

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Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea

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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents,

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Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you

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Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row

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Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease

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Speaker 1: screen time, and.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot of fun along the way.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Flash.

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Speaker 1: The cat was about six months old and she had

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Speaker 1: spent her entire life indoors.

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Speaker 2: She'd always dreamed ab.

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Speaker 1: Of going outside and love to look out the windows,

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Speaker 1: especially when they were open. She would push her face

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Speaker 1: up against the windows screen so that she could feel

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Speaker 1: the warm breeze blowing against her whiskers, and every day

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Speaker 1: she dreamed about what it would be like to run

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Speaker 1: on grass and dirt.

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Speaker 2: She thought, Wow, maybe the grass will make me even faster.

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Speaker 1: You see, Flash was a very fast cat. She had

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Speaker 1: been born with a lightning bolt in her fur, right

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Speaker 1: on the top of her head. She earned that bolt

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Speaker 1: mark on her head by when she was born, a

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Speaker 1: real lightning bolt crashed and made her the fastest cat

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Speaker 1: in the world. Flash always dreamed of running and playing

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Speaker 1: outside in the sun, playing the leaves and chasing other critters.

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Speaker 1: She always loved the squirrels because they had big fluffy

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Speaker 1: tails just like her, and she wondered, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Well, I wonder if it could be my best friend.

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Speaker 1: But she was never able to play with him because

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Speaker 1: she was an indoor cat. One day, her owner left

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Speaker 1: to go on in adventure, and as they left the door,

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, they left, the door cracked open. Flash looked

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Speaker 1: at the door and looked around. Nobody was there. Should

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: She was a little scared because she'd never been there before,

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Speaker 1: but she'd always dreamed of it, so this was her moment.

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Speaker 1: Flush be careful. She crept closer to the door, m

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Speaker 1: The air outside smelled so nice. As she closed her

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Speaker 1: eyes so that she could focus on how amazing that

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Speaker 1: smell was.

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Speaker 3: This might be my only jads.

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Speaker 2: I gotta do it.

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Speaker 1: She carefully crept outside, stepped down the stairs, and looked around,

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Speaker 1: and dashed right into the bushes.

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Speaker 3: Wooooooo.

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Speaker 1: She was so happy this is awesome that she stopped

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Speaker 1: in her tracks. Wait a second, I'm outside. I think

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Speaker 1: they're scary animals out here. What if a bear gets me,

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Speaker 1: or a lion or a cheater or a crocodile. You see,

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Speaker 1: Flash had watched a lot of videos about other animals,

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Speaker 1: lot more fun to look at when she was safe

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Speaker 1: and they were behind a screen. But now she's outside,

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Speaker 3: Are they real?

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Speaker 2: Holy smokes?

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Speaker 1: Do they live in her backyard? She instantly was very

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Speaker 1: scared and crouched very low to the ground. She looked

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Speaker 1: back and the wind closed the front door. Her eyes

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Speaker 3: Hah, I'm stuck out here forever. Hoot here.

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Speaker 1: She was now a little scared, But then she saw

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Speaker 1: a squirrel and wanted to go say hi to that squirrel.

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Speaker 1: She ran over to the squirrel as fast as she could.

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Speaker 1: But I think the squirrel thought she was chasing.

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Speaker 3: Her ah turtle more.

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Speaker 1: The squirrel ran up a tree as fast as it could,

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Speaker 1: and Flash called out and said.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I want to be friends.

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Speaker 2: Come down and play, and the squirrel answered.

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Speaker 3: Laurel's snirl, I'm coming down there, laure.

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Speaker 2: And Flash replied what, I'm not gonna eat you.

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Speaker 3: I just want to be friends. Can we play? What

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Speaker 3: do you do?

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Speaker 2: What do you do outside? We play in the laser?

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Speaker 2: Do we play in the dirtor her? Do we? Oh? Wait,

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Speaker 2: what bad things are gonna happen? Is someone gonna bite

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Speaker 2: me or eat me? And Lord Arm said the squirrel.

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Speaker 2: We're number blew and outsalde before. No, this this is

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Speaker 2: my first time. I'm excited and scared at the same time.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what to do or what not to do.

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Speaker 2: You help me a little promise We're not gonna Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: I promise I'm not gonna eat you.

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Speaker 1: As the squirrel slowly crept down the tree, the squirrel said, well, rull.

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Speaker 4: Number rum, booing out salt lots of frum.

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Speaker 1: When the squirrel said he likes to have fun, he

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Speaker 1: meant it pretty soon. Flash and the squirrel, whose name

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Speaker 1: was Nettie, started to have so much fun in the backyard.

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Speaker 1: They made a big pile of leaves and jumped in them,

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Speaker 1: and then found some long grasses to play hide and seek,

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Speaker 1: and they were having the time of their lives together.

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Speaker 1: But then all the sudden, Flash felt something on her

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Speaker 3: What is what's happening? Arlott's still roll them? Wait away.

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Speaker 2: I don't like getting wet. Cats don't like water like this,

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Speaker 2: little rut rout, I can't get wet. What do we do?

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Speaker 3: What do we do?

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Speaker 2: And the squirrel said, come up tomorrow, true nust.

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Speaker 3: He'll throw it up door. Little still drawl.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think that's too high for me. I think

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Speaker 2: if I go it up there, I'll never be able

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Speaker 2: to get back down.

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Speaker 3: St smells a little plum.

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Speaker 1: Squirrel and Flash looked around hat under law. There was

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Speaker 1: a trampoline in the backyard, and they both dashed underneath.

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Speaker 1: Flash's imagination started to go crazy as she thought.

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Speaker 2: Holy smokes, this is my first time.

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Speaker 3: In the rain. What if it floods.

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Speaker 2: What if it ever stops raining and the sun never

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Speaker 2: comes back and the leaves aren't crunching anymore.

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Speaker 1: They're so grossed right now because they're wet and Flash

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Speaker 1: was very worried, but Nutty the squirrel did a good

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Speaker 1: job of trying to help her feel better. Played some

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Speaker 1: games under the trampoline and actually did end up having

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And then the ring stopped.

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Speaker 2: Oh shoot, I think I'm ready to go back inside

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Speaker 2: my house.

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Speaker 1: And then something terrible happened.

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Speaker 2: Flash, Dirt, move a musser, there's a child harker flow.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, a giant hawk. Do you know what a

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Speaker 1: hawk is? It's a big bird with the big claws

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Speaker 1: and it might be the scariest thing in the world

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Speaker 1: to a squirrel.

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Speaker 3: What do we do? What do we do? What do

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Speaker 3: we do?

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Speaker 2: Nunny the squirrel calm flashed down and said.

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Speaker 3: I'll har them. I'll duor.

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Speaker 4: Hall on a lot faster, will not hark I'll run

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Speaker 4: out multiple strachson and run up the troll on blue

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Speaker 4: muss and solf on the lord and run harm little Okay.

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Speaker 1: On the count of three, Nutty the squirrel took off

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Speaker 1: running towards the tree to distract the hawk, and it

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Speaker 1: worked perfectly.

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Speaker 3: So Pull the.

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Speaker 1: Squirrels started running circles around in the yard to get

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Speaker 1: the hawk's attention. The hawks saw him and took off

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Speaker 1: right to the squirrel. Run, Nutty run, notety. The squirrel

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Speaker 1: did have plenty of time to get to his hiding

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Speaker 1: spot in his tree nice and safely, which allowed Flash

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Speaker 1: the cat enough time to race back inside.

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Speaker 2: Through their back door.

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Speaker 1: It was cracked open just a little bit as Flashed

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Speaker 1: the cat found a nice, warm blanket to curl up in.

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Speaker 1: She was happy to be safe inside of her home.

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Speaker 1: All he spoke that was crazy. Can't believe I went outside,

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Speaker 1: but that's amazing. But it is good to be back

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Speaker 1: inside my warm blankie. I don't know if I'll ever

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Speaker 1: go back to that again, but let's see maybe tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: And Flash went to sleep the end, we'll be right

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Speaker 1: back after a brief word from our sponsor. Great job,

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Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, and you

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Speaker 1: know what time it is. It's time for kid shout out.

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Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to Madion and Drew

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Speaker 1: from Illinois, Ellis from Michigan, Annabelle and Cole from Massachusetts,

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Speaker 1: NOAHM and Lila from Pennsylvania, Isabelle and Micah from Georgia,

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Speaker 1: Benjamin and Julian from Ottawa, Danny and Clara from Utah,

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Speaker 1: and Sarah and Matthias from Montreal, Canada. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: that you're all on the Kid Short Stories family. Definitely

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Speaker 1: could not have this much fun with imagination without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Will you have a super duper day and

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Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure.

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Speaker 3: By