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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Kohala Moon, your podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. Before we start tonight's story, a huge hello
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Speaker 1: is going out across the world to all of our
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Speaker 1: newest Coco Club members. Hello, Ruby and Marlowe from Lake Tahoe,
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Speaker 1: Evelyn and Jonah in Missouri, Caziah and Nicodemus and siblings
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Speaker 1: Freddie Iris Seren in Australia, oh and Amaya and Noah
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Speaker 1: in Scotland, and Axel from Switzerland. What Omega list today? Now,
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Speaker 1: I've got an important announcement to make about something extremely
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Speaker 1: exciting coming up. Always more exciting things on this podcast.
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Speaker 1: Over on Supercast, this week we will be hosting an
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Speaker 1: aka or Ask Cocoa anything. We did one with Sunny.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember you are some brilliantly inquisitive questions that time. Well,
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Speaker 1: now it's your chance to ask our fairy little gray
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Speaker 1: friend Cocoa any question you want, and with all of
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Speaker 1: his answers, we'll create a special mini episode so you
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Speaker 1: can learn even more about him. I mean, we all
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Speaker 1: know that he loves to sing and boogie along to Swifty,
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Speaker 1: He loves to play his ukulele and that his new
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Speaker 1: favorite snack is bamboo pancakes. That's right, but there must
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Speaker 1: be so many more things you'd like to know about him.
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Speaker 1: And if you're thinking of joining the Cocoa Club, now
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Speaker 1: is definitely the time. The link for this is in
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Speaker 1: the show notes and I can't wait to hear your questions. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: let's get back to tonight's episode now. Tonight's story is
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Speaker 1: unusual and very very sweet. In fact, it even features sweets.
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Speaker 1: You know, candy. We're going to soon meet two very
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Speaker 1: close friends and join them on their journey to a cozy,
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Speaker 1: little sweet shop in their town. I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: get started, and I'm sure it's going to relax and
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Speaker 1: soothe you from the moment it begins, and soon you'll
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Speaker 1: be floating away on clouds made of marshmallow and dreaming
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Speaker 1: of sweet nothing. Take a deep breath and snuggle down.
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Speaker 1: This is Marshmallow Clouds by Jane Thomas. Forrest lives behind
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Speaker 1: the blue door at number forty two. He's the one
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Speaker 1: with the mass of red hair who walks around with
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Speaker 1: a pair of binoculars slung around his neck, and he
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Speaker 1: is constantly naming birds that are so distant in the sky,
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Speaker 1: they're merely a hint of a black speck a jack door,
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Speaker 1: he'll call out, while everyone around nods their head in
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Speaker 1: agreement and mumbles things like ooh, yes, of course, a
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Speaker 1: jackdaw quite obvious. Really, yes, that's Forest. And Brooke lives
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Speaker 1: behind the red door at number forty four. She's the
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Speaker 1: girl who always has a basketball with her, who can
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Speaker 1: dash towards the hoop and in one, two, three easy bounces,
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Speaker 1: will always throw it through. Brooke never misses a shot.
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Speaker 1: She's also the girl in a wheelchair, but nobody knows
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Speaker 1: her as that. They know her as the girl with
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Speaker 1: the basketball, and they know her as the one they
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Speaker 1: want on their team. Brook is the sort who's always
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Speaker 1: picked first for a team, and Forrest is the sort
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Speaker 1: who's always picked last. He's too likely to get distracted
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Speaker 1: in the middle of a game. And we'll pick up
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Speaker 1: those ever present binoculars, yes, even in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a basketball game, to zoom in on a sparrow's nest
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Speaker 1: or a parting parakeet. So the lives lived behind the
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Speaker 1: blue door at number forty two and the red door
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Speaker 1: at number forty four are very different, indeed, but Brooke
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Speaker 1: and Forest are the very best of friends, and today,
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Speaker 1: right now, Forest is heading around to lift the great
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Speaker 1: brass knocker that hangs on his best friend's red front
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Speaker 1: door and invite her to head to the Sweet Shop
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Speaker 1: with him. It's a cold sort of a day, one
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Speaker 1: of those where it's a good idea to wear a
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Speaker 1: hat and a scarf even if it isn't really winter yet,
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Speaker 1: and the clouds are hanging low and heavy. Maybe they
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Speaker 1: hold snow or maybe just more rain. This is a
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Speaker 1: particularly special visit to the Sweet Shop, as they've invited
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Speaker 1: you to come along with them. They want to be
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Speaker 1: sure you'll be cozy and warm. So imagine now that
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Speaker 1: you're pushing on the coziest bright red hat with the
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Speaker 1: most bobbling bobble that has ever been seen, and you're
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Speaker 1: winding a long, pale blue scarf around your neck once
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Speaker 1: and twice and three times round. Take your coat from
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Speaker 1: the peg in the hall, the one that has the
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Speaker 1: deep pockets that you can bury your hands in, and
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Speaker 1: slip your feet into those fur lined winter boots that
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Speaker 1: keep your toes extra warm and snuggly. Walk with Forest
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Speaker 1: up to the door and watch as he lifts that
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Speaker 1: great brass knocker and lets it fall back with a
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Speaker 1: dull thump that echoes throughout the house. If you listen carefully,
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Speaker 1: you'll hear the rush of brook getting her things together.
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Speaker 1: Here she is opening the door and rolling her way
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Speaker 1: down the ramp onto the path that winds its way
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Speaker 1: through the garden and out of the little lane. She
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Speaker 1: has that blanket in place that you all made together
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Speaker 1: last year, the one with the squares of old clothes
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Speaker 1: that you'd all grown out of and that you'd carefully
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Speaker 1: slowly stitched together, one by one, threading needles night after night,
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Speaker 1: until finally the blanket was completed. The squares all tell
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Speaker 1: stories that only you know, the moment when those clothes
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Speaker 1: were worn and loved. What was your favorite jumper? Do
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Speaker 1: you remember the last time you wore it? Imagine those
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Speaker 1: moments kept forever in a blanket of woven memories wrapped
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Speaker 1: around you, and pouring those perfect minutes and hours and
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Speaker 1: days into your dreams. The three of you are heading
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Speaker 1: down the road now. Forest keeps one hand loosely placed
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Speaker 1: on the back of Brooks wheelchair, not because it needs
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Speaker 1: to be there, but because it makes them both more
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Speaker 1: sure of each other. As long as his hand is
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Speaker 1: in place, he isn't looking through the binoculars and getting
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Speaker 1: distracted by specks in the sky. As long as his
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Speaker 1: hand is in place, forest won't get left behind. You
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Speaker 1: walk past fields that have long been cut short, the
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Speaker 1: harvests taken in, and the fields left for now vast
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Speaker 1: expanses of nothingnes's dotted with small patches of brown and
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Speaker 1: green where the weeds are creeping in. In the far
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Speaker 1: corner of the field, there are a group of rabbits,
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Speaker 1: their white tails dancing bright against the darkness of the earth.
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Speaker 1: The wind whips its way across the field, rustling the
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Speaker 1: final few leaves that hang on the branches of the
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Speaker 1: trees and throwing up the piles that lie in gold
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Speaker 1: and red and orange heaps on the ground below. A
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Speaker 1: single leaf is caught by the wind and floats past you,
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Speaker 1: swirling and twirling and dancing and diving as the gust
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Speaker 1: ebbs and flows. There's a small bridge to walk across now,
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Speaker 1: an old stone one that arches in the middle, as
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Speaker 1: if stretching up, up and away from the coldness of
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Speaker 1: the river that runs below. The water even looks cold today,
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Speaker 1: gray and silver streaks spilling over rocks and pouring their
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Speaker 1: way down towards the distant forest. In the summer, it's
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Speaker 1: the perfect place to paddle, where you go and roll
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Speaker 1: your jeans up and dabble your toes, and on the
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Speaker 1: hottest days dare to dive into the cooling depths. Not today, though,
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Speaker 1: where it's a day to snuggle even deeper into your
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Speaker 1: coat and bury your hands in your pockets and push
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Speaker 1: your head as far as it will go into your
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Speaker 1: cozy hat. You've reached the edge of the village now,
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Speaker 1: and the first place you pass is the post office.
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Speaker 1: The windows are steamed up, damp from the warm breaths
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Speaker 1: being drawn inside, but it's just possible to make out
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Speaker 1: the line of people waiting to send parcels and letters
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Speaker 1: and packages to all corners of the world. There's something
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Speaker 1: a little bit magical about post offices and how they
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Speaker 1: can take your words, your very own, specially written, carefully
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Speaker 1: crafted words, and whisk them away to the person you've
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Speaker 1: chosen to receive them. Forest has a penpow who lives
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Speaker 1: in Malaysia, and they often send letters back and forth,
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Speaker 1: each choosing the brightest and most brilliant envelopes and insisting
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Speaker 1: that the ladies in their respective post offices sell them
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Speaker 1: the brightest and most brilliant stamps too. Forest's friend often
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Speaker 1: sends stamps with pictures of birds so wild and wonderful
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Speaker 1: that it's hard to believe they're even real, with impossible
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Speaker 1: blues and turquoises, and dashes of sunshine, yellow and fiery
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Speaker 1: red feathers, dressing the birds in exquisite beauty. And now
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Speaker 1: you walk past the bakery, where the windows are steamed
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Speaker 1: up from the warmth of the bread and the cakes
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Speaker 1: that steam gently on the glass shelves. The lady behind
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Speaker 1: the counter dashes back and forth, spilling out smiles as
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Speaker 1: she reaches for freshly baked loaves and delicate fairy cakes
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Speaker 1: and muffins with tops that spill generously from the sides
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Speaker 1: of the paper. Next it's the hardware stool, with almost
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Speaker 1: half the shop seemingly outside on the pavement for all
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Speaker 1: to see. The rakes and spades and gardening forks are
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Speaker 1: leaned up against the wall, all shiny and clean and
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Speaker 1: waiting to be taken into gardens and fields and covered
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Speaker 1: in glorious layers of mud. And the wheelbarrows propped up
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Speaker 1: and eager to be taken away and given a purpose
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Speaker 1: in the world, helping haul hay to the horses, and
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Speaker 1: pills are fallen apples to be made into apple pies
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Speaker 1: and crumbles and biscuits and bakes, and finally, here it
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Speaker 1: is the place you have all been waiting for. Brook
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Speaker 1: heads first into the sweet scented candy land, and you
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Speaker 1: and forest follow close behind. It's one of those old
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Speaker 1: fashioned sweet shops where everything is placed in huge jars
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Speaker 1: on shells that are so high they can only be
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Speaker 1: reached by a ladder that rolls its way this and
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Speaker 1: that as Miss Dewdrop guides it. She's a tiny old
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Speaker 1: lady who looks out at the world over the top
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Speaker 1: of her little round glasses, and whose clothes fall in
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Speaker 1: flowing waves around her. She wears her hair in a
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Speaker 1: gray bun atop her head and fills it with pens
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Speaker 1: and pencils and all sorts of useful things that she
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Speaker 1: has a tendency to lose if she doesn't keep them
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Speaker 1: close by, so she often has the appearance of having
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Speaker 1: an eccentric sort of nest on top of her head.
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Speaker 1: Choosing the perfect combination of candies always takes a while,
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Speaker 1: for there are hundreds of thousands to choose from, and
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Speaker 1: indeed there are quite literally hundreds and thousands in there too.
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Speaker 1: Should you wish to have a bag full of the
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Speaker 1: tiniest colored sugar balls that stick to the end of
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Speaker 1: a licked finger and smile softly on your tongue. There's
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Speaker 1: a chocolate fountain on the counter, and for a moment
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Speaker 1: you imagine gliding away on a chocolate river, floating in
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Speaker 1: a boat forged from the finest chocolate, and the bobs
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Speaker 1: across the little way the river swoops and swirls past
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Speaker 1: the land made entirely of candy, with lollipops taking the
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Speaker 1: place of flowers, and where sugar mice have come to
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Speaker 1: life in a twinkling, twirling, whirling pale pink mats. Beneath
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Speaker 1: the shade of a gumdrop tree. Alongside the chocolate fountain
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Speaker 1: is a huge glass bowl overflowing with pink and white marshmallows.
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Speaker 1: Imagine floating on a cloud of marshmallows, drifting through a
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Speaker 1: pale blue sky on your billowing pillow of the fluffiest,
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Speaker 1: softest bed made from sugar and air blended together in
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Speaker 1: a magical way. Imagine feeling as if you weighed nothing
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Speaker 1: at all and could float high above the world, with
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Speaker 1: everything on it reduced to a size so small that
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Speaker 1: nothing matters anymore. Imagine floating so high that you reach
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Speaker 1: the stars, and that you can drift between them one
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Speaker 1: by one, lying there on that softest of beds that
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Speaker 1: bends and sways to your every whim. In the window
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Speaker 1: of the shop is a huge white marble slab, and
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Speaker 1: onto it, miss dewdrop paused from a tilted jug a
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Speaker 1: river of unset fudge that rushes across the slab and
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Speaker 1: waits for her to sweep it back and forth, smoothing
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Speaker 1: it this way and that, expertly shaping and easing the
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Speaker 1: waves of warm fudge so the coolness of the marble
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Speaker 1: works its magic. This is something Brooke has watched for
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Speaker 1: hour after hour, wondering at the way the shiny liquid
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Speaker 1: fudge slowly cools and hardens before her eyes, before being
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Speaker 1: whisked away as sticky squares in cardboard boxes, waiting to
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Speaker 1: be taken to homes. Throughout the little village, you work
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Speaker 1: your way along the top row of jars, looking at
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Speaker 1: the fudges and toffees and jellies and candies. The chocolates
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Speaker 1: and cakes and sherbs and fizzles. Looking down to the
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Speaker 1: next row to see the glass jars filled with all
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Speaker 1: the colors of the rainbow. Looking down to the robe
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Speaker 1: below that, to imagine all the ways the sugar and
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Speaker 1: sweetness can dance on your tongue. And there it is,
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Speaker 1: the first second there, four fifth from the left, the
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Speaker 1: jar filled to the brim with your favorite sweets in
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Speaker 1: the world. That's the one, you tell, Miss Judo, pointing
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Speaker 1: carefully so she knows exactly where to wheel her ladder
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Speaker 1: and exactly how many rungs she must climb before she
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Speaker 1: reaches to the jar and turns to see you smile
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Speaker 1: and nod and show that yes, this is the jar.
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Speaker 1: These are the ones you will have to day. And
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Speaker 1: Miss Judo smiles in turn and carefully takes the jar down,
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Speaker 1: balancing it against one hip as she eases her way
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Speaker 1: down the ladder, one roung after the other, carrying it
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Speaker 1: before her as if it is a trophy. As she
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Speaker 1: heads to the scales at the far end of the counter,
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Speaker 1: she picks the right weight and places it on the
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Speaker 1: flat disk, scooping your sweets into the brass bowl until
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Speaker 1: the scales balance perfectly, and your sweets seem to be
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Speaker 1: floating in the air all by themselves. She takes the
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Speaker 1: little brass bowl and pours your sweets into a paper bag,
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Speaker 1: turning the top once and then again to make sure
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Speaker 1: they are safely tucked inside. And because she is Miss Dewdrop,
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Speaker 1: she takes an extra one of the sweets and hands
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Speaker 1: it you now, because she knows how very hard it
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Speaker 1: is to walk all the way home and not help
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Speaker 1: yourself to any of your favorite sweets. She replaces the
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Speaker 1: lid and once more carries the jar before her, a
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Speaker 1: precious prize that must be returned to its rightful place
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Speaker 1: on the shelf, and once more balances it against her
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Speaker 1: hip and slowly climbs the wrungs of the ladder. Forrest
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Speaker 1: has decided that today he will have the chocolate limes,
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Speaker 1: and Miss Dewdrop repeats her performance, maneuvering the ladder to
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Speaker 1: the middle of the shells and climbing up to reach
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Speaker 1: the very top shelf and the first second third jar
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Speaker 1: on the left, the chocolate limes carefully weighed and measured.
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Speaker 1: When the jar returned, she turns to Brooke, who has
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Speaker 1: chosen the jelly beans to day, not the ones that
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Speaker 1: are on their own, not just the strawberry ones, or
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Speaker 1: the blueberry ones, or the lemon ones, or the bubblegum ones,
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Speaker 1: but the jar that contains the hundred different flavors of
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Speaker 1: jelly bean, all bundled together, so each taste is a
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Speaker 1: brand new surprise. You all hand over your coins and
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Speaker 1: pay for your sweets, watching the money disappear into the
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Speaker 1: cash register with a tinkle from the machine and a
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Speaker 1: twinkle from Miss Dewdrop. She hands you each one of
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Speaker 1: her favorites of the moment. For her favorite changes with
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Speaker 1: her whims, and you open your hand to see the
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Speaker 1: black and white stripes of a mint humbug promises of
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Speaker 1: a sot freshness filling your mouth as you head slowly home.
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Speaker 1: It rained a little while you were inside the sweet shop,
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Speaker 1: and now there are puddles lining the edge of the lane,
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Speaker 1: brooks chance to rush through and splash you and forest
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Speaker 1: with the spray from her gleaming wheels. You walk back
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Speaker 1: past the hardware store, where the tools are now shining
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Speaker 1: with a dampness from the rain, and a small puddle
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Speaker 1: in the base of a silver bucket throws back the
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Speaker 1: watery sunlight to the world. The evening is starting to
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Speaker 1: draw in and the light is beginning to fade. It's
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Speaker 1: time to head home. Past the bakery with the steamed
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Speaker 1: up windows, past the post office with its piles of
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Speaker 1: packages waiting to be gathered up and whisked around the world,
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Speaker 1: and towards the bridge, where the river runs even more
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Speaker 1: merrily than it did before, now that more water is
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Speaker 1: pouring into it from the hills and fields. Passing by
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Speaker 1: the field, the rabbits are long gone, now safe in
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Speaker 1: their burrows and far from the dampness and grayness of
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Speaker 1: the world above. The last few birds are heading home,
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Speaker 1: disappearing into holes in trees and heading into soft nests
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Speaker 1: to hide away until the morning. A few ducks are
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Speaker 1: nestled in the marshy area over there, quacking a good
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Speaker 1: night to each other as the sun sinks lower and
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Speaker 1: lower and everything becomes nothing more than a silhouette against
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Speaker 1: the sky line. You reach Brooks home first, and both
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Speaker 1: you and Forest head up to the red door of
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Speaker 1: number forty four with her. Then it is Forest's home,
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Speaker 1: and you walk up together to the blue door of
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Speaker 1: number forty two, waving goodbye as you walk alone down
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Speaker 1: the garden path and out onto the lane. It's just
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Speaker 1: a few more steps. Now, only a few more steps,
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Speaker 1: and you can be in your own home and close
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Speaker 1: your front door behind you. Now it's your turn to
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Speaker 1: step into the warmth and pull the hat from your head,
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Speaker 1: and hang your coat from the peg in the hall,
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Speaker 1: and slip your feet from your fur lined boots, unwind
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Speaker 1: the scar once, twice, three times, and slowly, putting one
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Speaker 1: foot carefully in front of the other, you climb the
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Speaker 1: stairs and walk towards your bedroom, disappearing beneath the blankets
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Speaker 1: and turning your head this way and that on the
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Speaker 1: pillow until there he found it the perfect spot. The
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Speaker 1: wind whistles outside, but you are safe and warm in
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Speaker 1: your bed, and the rain that drums softly against the
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Speaker 1: roof can do you no harm. This is where you
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Speaker 1: are supposed to be, now, curled up with thoughts of
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Speaker 1: marshmallow cloud drifting you slowly towards the stars and the moon.
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Speaker 1: Imagine floating on candy flows lighter than air, your toes
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Speaker 1: and feet and legs and body and arms and hands
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Speaker 1: and neck and head feeling as if they weigh nothing
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Speaker 1: at all. Close your eyes and imagine where you would drift.
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Speaker 1: If you could drift anywhere in the world, all those
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Speaker 1: beautiful places waiting for you, with their streams and meadows,
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Speaker 1: misty days and whimsical ways. Imagine a soft, billowing warmth
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Speaker 1: against your skin, drifting towards a land where pear drops
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Speaker 1: hang heavy from the branches of trees, and paths are
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Speaker 1: paved with sugar. Where Miss Dewdrop comes by with her
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Speaker 1: thousand glass jars filled with all the sweets in the world,
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Speaker 1: with her clothes billowing softly around her in waves of
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Speaker 1: smooth as silk. Where you are everything you want to be,
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Speaker 1: and everything you will be, floating through life on a
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Speaker 1: candy floss cloud to the