In tonight's bedtime story for kids we return to Potato & Beans' diner, where the cats come across a mysterious cooking pot that seems to hold some kind of special powers... Find out what happens when Mrs Pig puts it to the test! Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Kuala 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. Coco's here to give a warm welcome and
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Speaker 1: fuzzy wave to the newest members of the club. Hello
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Speaker 1: and welcome Carteret, Amalia, Roman Zara and their new baby sister, Kamla, Olivia,
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Speaker 1: ned Norah and Emmett and Charlotte. It's wonderful to have
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Speaker 1: you join us and to have read your messages. Keep
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Speaker 1: them coming. Yes, we read everything, and although we can't
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Speaker 1: always reply because of the tech, we take on board
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Speaker 1: your thoughts. And it's for this reason that I know many, many,
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Speaker 1: many of you will be delighted to hear that Susannah
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Speaker 1: has written another story featuring your two favorite felines. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the roller skating diner cats, Potato and Beans are back.
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Speaker 1: In tonight's story, We're going to travel back to the
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Speaker 1: diner in the middle of nowhere, where Potato and Beans
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Speaker 1: are having a day off. To keep themselves occupied, they
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Speaker 1: travel to the flea market where they pick up a
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Speaker 1: giant cooking pot which turns out to have a touch
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Speaker 1: of magic within when missus Pigg uses it to make
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Speaker 1: a soup. Something amazing happens, and it turns into a
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Speaker 1: soup of dreams. Gosh, I could do with one of those.
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Speaker 1: Lie back and take some nice, steady breaths as you
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Speaker 1: close your eyes, because it's time for me to shortly
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Speaker 1: begin Potato and Beans and the Soup of Dreams, buy
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Speaker 1: Uzanna McLoughlin. One balmy winter's day, when the sky was
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Speaker 1: blue and endless over the plains, when the valley was
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Speaker 1: cool and the catties swayed in the breeze, Potato and
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Speaker 1: Beans stirred and yawned and arose from their comfy beds.
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Speaker 1: It was a little later than usual, and they had
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Speaker 1: to stretch each pore and whisker and curl their tails
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Speaker 1: to wake up. Go morning, Potato, said Beans, Good morning, Beans,
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Speaker 1: said Potato. It was a Tuesday, and that meant it
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Speaker 1: was Potato and Beans' day off. Tuesdays and Wednesdays were
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Speaker 1: the diner's quietest days of the week, which meant Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans had the day to themselves to do anything
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Speaker 1: they wanted. On these days, missus pigs nephew, upon hot
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Speaker 1: bellied pig named Turnip, would don his roller skates and
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Speaker 1: take over the front of the diner. He was a
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Speaker 1: little clumsy on his skates, but otherwise did an excellent
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Speaker 1: job at serving the customers, and he could even make
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Speaker 1: patterns in the foam on top of people's coffees. The
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Speaker 1: diner was just opening, and Potato and Beans could hear
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Speaker 1: the rattles and scrapes from below as the floor was
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Speaker 1: mopped and coffee pot was boiled, and missus Piggs started
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Speaker 1: baking her treats for the day and puzzling over her
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Speaker 1: daily special. As for the cats, they had a different
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Speaker 1: day ahead of them. Potato had seen a flyer on
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Speaker 1: one of the cars in the parking lot the day
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Speaker 1: before advertising a flea market that was currently in town.
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Speaker 1: At first, she thought it was a market for fleas
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Speaker 1: and thought they would be much too big to see
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Speaker 1: any of the stalls, But then Beans explained that a
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Speaker 1: flea market was actually a full size market selling all
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Speaker 1: kinds of secondhand things and antiques. With that cleared up,
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Speaker 1: the two of them thought it sounded like an excellent
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Speaker 1: way to spend their day off. First things first, the
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Speaker 1: two kittens ate a breakfast of warm milk and biscuits,
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Speaker 1: then got dressed. Potato wore a hand knitted purple jumper
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Speaker 1: with a big star on the front, and Beans wore
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Speaker 1: a similar one in blue with a daisy on the chest.
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Speaker 1: They had been gifts from Ozzie the Octopus last Christmas.
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Speaker 1: He had learned that with eight arms he was a
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Speaker 1: champion knitter, and knitted everybody's Christmas presence in just one night.
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Speaker 1: The two cats went downstairs, trotting through the diner and
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Speaker 1: out to the parking lot, waving goodbye to Missus, Pig
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Speaker 1: turn It and Ozzy on the way. They hopped on
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Speaker 1: their tandem bicycle, counted to three and began peddling in
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Speaker 1: sinc zooming down the road. They cycled on the long
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Speaker 1: flat road through the desert valley for a while before
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Speaker 1: taking a left turn onto a pebbly path which wound
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Speaker 1: up into the mountains. They cycled up up up the
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Speaker 1: dusty orange path until they were on top of a
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Speaker 1: rocky hill and standing on its wide, flat summit. Usually
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Speaker 1: the cats would come here to look out across the
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Speaker 1: sweeping views of endless open desert, but not today. Today
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Speaker 1: their eyes were drawn to the scenes right there on
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Speaker 1: the hilltop. Hundreds of stalls had squeezed onto the hill,
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Speaker 1: creating a higgordy piggledy maze of billowing tent and gleaming
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Speaker 1: hand painted signs. Some stools had tables covered in objects
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Speaker 1: of all kinds, had trinkets and knickknacks spread out on
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Speaker 1: woven carpets. On the ground, Animals bustled from stall to stall,
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Speaker 1: and chatter filled the air. Every now and then a
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Speaker 1: shopkeeper would bellow and offer from their stall something like
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Speaker 1: three doorn arms for ten cents or bar wa music
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Speaker 1: box and get two free potato and beans. Stood next
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Speaker 1: to their parked bicycle for a while, just watching the
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Speaker 1: scene unfold. Every now and then an animal would pass
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Speaker 1: them to leave the market with their arms laden with objects.
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Speaker 1: One grinning frog walked out with a harp slung over
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Speaker 1: his shoulder, and a frowning raccoon passed by with a
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Speaker 1: stack of records piled so high he had to stick
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Speaker 1: his tongue out in concentration to stop them toppling over.
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Speaker 1: Potato and beans grinned at each other, then stepped into
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Speaker 1: the market. The first stall they paused at sold clocks.
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Speaker 1: There were cuckoo clocks with all sorts of interesting displays,
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Speaker 1: one where a wooden fish would jump out of a
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Speaker 1: carved pond every time the clock struck twelve and one,
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Speaker 1: where a little mechanical mouse would scurry around the clock
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Speaker 1: face in time with the second hand. Potato and Beans
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Speaker 1: watched the little mouse run the whole way around, mesmerized
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Speaker 1: by its little squeaks and its turning tail. There was
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Speaker 1: a tangle of wristwatches, some in silver and gold and
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Speaker 1: some with multicolor rubber straps and pictures on the faces.
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Speaker 1: They pressed on into the market, stopping next at the
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Speaker 1: canvas tent, where a lama was selling woven furniture and
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Speaker 1: colorful decorations of all kinds. He had curly hair and
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Speaker 1: a lazy smile, and jewelry dangled from his ears, his head,
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Speaker 1: his wrists, and his neck. Even his ankles were wrapped
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Speaker 1: in plaited, multi colored string. Potato was fixated on a
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Speaker 1: wicker chair, which she desperately wanted to use as a
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Speaker 1: scratching post, but Beans distracted her with a string of
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Speaker 1: multicolored pomp poms before taking her hand and pulling her
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Speaker 1: away to the next door. The next door consisted of
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Speaker 1: large flat tables piled high with fabrics, clothes, old toys,
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Speaker 1: and furniture. A family of possums were rummaging through already
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Speaker 1: with the little lists sat underneath the table, rifling through
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Speaker 1: stacks of old books and comics. One of the possums
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Speaker 1: caught Beans's eye dove in. He said, there's treasure to
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Speaker 1: be found. Potato and Beans began wading through the wares,
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Speaker 1: plunging their paws into the piles and pulling items blindly
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Speaker 1: from the bottom. Before long, Potato gasped. Beans turned to
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Speaker 1: see her holding a multi colored pair of knitted socks
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Speaker 1: that looked long enough to reach her knees. They were
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Speaker 1: striped in rainbow colors, and on the end of each foot,
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Speaker 1: the sock divided into toes like a glove dost for
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Speaker 1: your fingers toes socks. Potato squealed, pulling a shiny penny
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Speaker 1: from her purse and handing it to the stall owner.
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Speaker 1: Beans watched on as Potato tried out her new socks.
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Speaker 1: Behind Potato, a glimmer caught Beans's eye from the next door.
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Speaker 1: Amongst piles of shoes, A silver metal star sparkled. Beans
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Speaker 1: strode over to the table, took hold of the star
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Speaker 1: and pulled it out of the heap. It was attached
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Speaker 1: to the heel of a boot, not a regular boot,
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Speaker 1: a cowboy boot. The boot was red and decorated with
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Speaker 1: embroidery in the shape of cacti and stars, moons and hillsides.
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Speaker 1: It had a pointed toe and a wooden heel that
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Speaker 1: would clack as you walked. Beans had to have it.
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Speaker 1: A small horse trying on some capshoes, looked at the
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Speaker 1: boot in the cat's paws and grinned, those are some
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Speaker 1: nice cowboy boots. Then she frowned, But where is the
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Speaker 1: other one? Potato joined the two animals. As they looked
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Speaker 1: around the stall, the boot was nowhere to be seen.
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Speaker 1: It must be buried in the heap somewhere. As they looked,
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Speaker 1: the largest stack of shoes began to wobble and shake. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: the small head of a mole poked out the top
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Speaker 1: of it, and her little arm burst out of the side,
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Speaker 1: holding a shiny red cowboy boot. Here it is, the mole, said,
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Speaker 1: hopping down onto the floor and handing it to Beans.
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Speaker 1: The cats cheered and thanked them all From his apron,
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Speaker 1: they could tell he was the stall owner, so they
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Speaker 1: handed him a dime and went on their way. Beans
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Speaker 1: swung the bag holding her new boots. As she went,
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Speaker 1: the cats ambled down rows and rows of stalls. They
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Speaker 1: ate sticky donuts from a purple painted food truck and
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Speaker 1: feasted on tacos from a red one. They rifled through books,
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Speaker 1: marveled at old fashioned furniture, and puzzled over ancient artifacts
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Speaker 1: that they didn't know the use for. The cats were
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Speaker 1: nearly ready to go back to the diner, but there
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Speaker 1: was one more stores to check out. Right in the
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Speaker 1: center of the market, a collection of rugs was spread
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Speaker 1: over the ground, creating a patchwork square of carpet upon
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Speaker 1: which metal pots and pans, ceramic plates and bowls, and
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Speaker 1: wooden boxes and cutlery were placed. Some of them were
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Speaker 1: ornate and old, some were shiny and new. Some of
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Speaker 1: them were decorated with tiny patterns and signed on the
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Speaker 1: bottom with a flourish Potato's eye was quickly drawn to
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Speaker 1: a large pot in the middle of the space. It
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Speaker 1: looked big enough for her to sit in and shiny
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Speaker 1: enough to reflect her face in. It was copper colored
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Speaker 1: and had ornate handles and a big domed lid. Potato
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Speaker 1: took Beans by the paw and pulled her over to
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Speaker 1: the pot. Would you look at this, she said, imagine
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Speaker 1: what missus pig could cook in that, Beans giggled, She
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Speaker 1: could cook and a chair in there? She said, it's huge.
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Speaker 1: The two cats poked and prodded it for a while
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Speaker 1: before deciding they would take it. They called over the
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Speaker 1: stall owner, a camel wearing a suede waistcoat and sandals
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Speaker 1: that looked like he'd walked all the way round the
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Speaker 1: globe in them. The camels smiled knowingly as he took
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Speaker 1: their dollar twenty five, saying that they had made an
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Speaker 1: excellent choice. Carrying the pot between them, the two cats
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Speaker 1: maneuvered their way out of the market and back to
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Speaker 1: their bicycle, which was waiting patiently for them in the sunshine.
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Speaker 1: Beans opened the basket on the handlebars and poured out
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Speaker 1: the tangle of bungee cords that they kept in there
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Speaker 1: for times like this. The cats wrapped the bungee cords once,
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Speaker 1: twice three times around the pot and attached it to
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Speaker 1: the bicycle in between the two cat seats. Then they
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Speaker 1: hopped aboard and headed down the twisting paths towards the planes.
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Speaker 1: Potato particularly enjoyed this journey as she got to wrap
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Speaker 1: her arms around the pot for safety whilst beans did
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Speaker 1: all the peddling. Arriving at the diner, the cats hoisted
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Speaker 1: down the big shiny pot, carried it through the diner
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Speaker 1: doors and through the swinging doors that led to the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Wishing turn it been the happy customers a friendly good afternoon.
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Speaker 1: As they passed, they heaved the pot onto the cooker
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Speaker 1: and caught their breath, smiling at how at home the
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Speaker 1: pot looked in the diner kitchen. Missus Pig and Ozzy
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Speaker 1: the Octopus soon appeared at their sides. Whoa Ozzy mumbled
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Speaker 1: as he waved his tentacles in front of the pot,
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Speaker 1: looking at their reflections dance across the dimpled surface. Missus
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Speaker 1: Pig beamed and swept the two cats up in a hug.
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Speaker 1: Is the for me? She asked. The cats nodded from
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Speaker 1: within the hug. Missus Pig released them and gave an
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Speaker 1: excited round of applause. A cook, cook for a whole
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Speaker 1: city with this part, she said. She flicked the stove
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Speaker 1: a light under the pot and poured some golden olive
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Speaker 1: oil into its depths. Soup, she said, ah, making soup
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Speaker 1: of the day. Ozzie had snuck off to the fridge
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Speaker 1: anticipating this, and now he reappeared, dropping eight tentacles worth
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Speaker 1: of vegetables on to the chopping board. He took a
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Speaker 1: knife in each tentacle and began to chop before they
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Speaker 1: were swept up in this whirlwind. Potato and beans padded
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Speaker 1: out to the diner and took a seat at a
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Speaker 1: booth where Tzara the post dog and Sheriff for Possum
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Speaker 1: were settled into a game of cards. The two animals
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Speaker 1: snapped their last round of snap and gathered the stack
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Speaker 1: of cards to deal the cats in for the next game.
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Speaker 1: Turnip glided over on his roller skates, careful not to
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Speaker 1: bump into the table, and set milk shakes down for
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Speaker 1: each of them, before settling in besides them to enjoy
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Speaker 1: a quiet moment watching them play, dipping off now and
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Speaker 1: again to fill up cups and deliver slices of cake
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Speaker 1: as they played, unbeknownst to them, shining silver clouds of
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Speaker 1: mist and golden sparks began drifting from the pot that
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Speaker 1: was bubbling away in the kitchen. Half an hour later,
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Speaker 1: missus Pigs skated from the kitchen pushing a little trolley
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Speaker 1: topped with a ginormous pot of steaming soup, a stack
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Speaker 1: of bowls, and a ladle. Soon the trolley was next
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Speaker 1: to the group's booth, and Missus Pig had the ladle
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Speaker 1: in hand, ready to serve. Ozzie slid into the booth,
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Speaker 1: too ready to taste Missus Pig's soup du jour. Missus
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Speaker 1: Pig insisted she wanted honest feedback. She needed to make
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Speaker 1: sure the soup was absolutely perfect before serving it to
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Speaker 1: paying customers. She said there was no need to be polite.
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Speaker 1: She was a professional and had grown thick skin over
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Speaker 1: her many years in the kitchen. First, Missus Pig filled
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Speaker 1: a bowl she had placed in front of Zara, the
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Speaker 1: post dog. The group watched in anticipation as the labradoodle
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Speaker 1: raised her spoon towards her mouth. Zara gulped nervously, blew
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Speaker 1: on her spoon, and slurped the soup from it. Everyone
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Speaker 1: held their breath. Sara's eyes shone and widened in surprise.
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Speaker 1: She stayed silent for a moment before looking up at
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Speaker 1: Missus Pig. That's the best thing I ever tasted, she said.
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Speaker 1: It tastes like gravy and kibble and chew toys all
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Speaker 1: at once. It tastes like water from the lake and
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Speaker 1: the treats I used to get as a kid. She
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Speaker 1: picked up her ball and drank it straight from the dish.
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Speaker 1: Missus Pig looked confused. Well, good job, missus Pig, Ozzie said,
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Speaker 1: you made a dog's dream soup. I for one, don't
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Speaker 1: like kibble so much, though, so if you don't mind,
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Speaker 1: I'll pass. Missus Pig frowned at Ozzy. It couldn't possibly
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Speaker 1: taste like kibble, she said. It's the best vegetable soup
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Speaker 1: I have ever tasted. There's nothing kibble like in there.
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Speaker 1: Please Ozzie try it and see. Missus Pig poured a
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Speaker 1: ladleful into Ozzie's ball. He raised the spoon to his lips,
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Speaker 1: giving nervous glances to potato and beans across the table.
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Speaker 1: He took a sip and his eyebrows shut up. It's
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Speaker 1: it's it tastes lack what missus Pig prompted him. It
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Speaker 1: tastes like the sea. The other animals furrowed their brows.
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Speaker 1: How could it taste like kibble and the sea, Ozzie continued,
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Speaker 1: Ah can taste seaweed and salty water, coral and dancing bubbles.
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Speaker 1: It's the best thing I ever tasted, too. The animal's
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Speaker 1: mouths hung open. Beans, please try it, missus pigs said,
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Speaker 1: scooping a spoonful into Beans's bowl. Beans was a little nervous.
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Speaker 1: She didn't want to drink sea water or dog's kibble.
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Speaker 1: But for Missus Pig, she put on a brave face
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Speaker 1: and slurped down a whole spoon of soup. Beans's whiskers
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Speaker 1: quivered and she looked at Missus Pig with gleaming eyes.
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Speaker 1: They're right, Beans said, it's the best thing I ever tasted.
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Speaker 1: But it doesn't taste like kibble or sea water. It's
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Speaker 1: so creamy. It's creamy and salty and sweet all at once.
00:23:08
Speaker 1: Potato took Beans's spoon and took a sip. She licked
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Speaker 1: her lips and smiled. That's right, Potato said, it's so creamy,
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Speaker 1: with a hint of oh broccoli. Beans looked at Potato
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Speaker 1: and shook her head. It doesn't taste like broccoli at all,
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Speaker 1: she said, Oh, yes, it does, Potato said, I would know.
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Speaker 1: Broccoli is my favorite vegetable. Missus Pig had a trotter
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Speaker 1: on her chin, and she looked deep in thought. If
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Speaker 1: it tastes like broccoli for a potato, cream for beans,
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Speaker 1: kibble for Zara, and the ocean for Ozzi. It seems
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Speaker 1: the soup tastes of whatever his drinker loves the most.
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Speaker 1: But how is there possible? Potato and beans looked at
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Speaker 1: each other for a couple of seconds, wide eyed, before
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Speaker 1: throwing up their arms and singing in unison, We found
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Speaker 1: the magic pot. We found the magic pot. Missus Pigs
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Speaker 1: smiled a slow smile of realization. She had a magic pot.
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Speaker 1: She could make soup that tasted different to every animal
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Speaker 1: that walked through the door, and they would all love it.
00:25:00
Speaker 1: The animals all laughed and cheered, and those that had
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Speaker 1: not tried the soup licked their lips in anticipation. For Turnip,
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Speaker 1: the little pot bellied pig, the soup tasted like his
00:25:15
Speaker 1: Auntie's famous apple pie with whipped cream and custard. To Sheriff.
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Speaker 1: For Possum, it tasted like a fruit smoothie, mangoes, papaya,
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Speaker 1: kiwi fruit, and orange. They both agreed it was the
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Speaker 1: best thing they ever tasted. Once they all finished two
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Speaker 1: bowls each and had scraped their crockery clean, Missus Pigs
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Speaker 1: skated towards the counter and picked up a piece of
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Speaker 1: chalk from the pot next to the blackboard. In her elegant,
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Speaker 1: swooping writing, she wrote the words soup of your Dreams,
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Speaker 1: one dollar per bowl. By the end of the evening,
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Speaker 1: her pot was empty. Ozzie lovingly carried it to his
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Speaker 1: soapy sink and climbed into the basin to give it
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Speaker 1: a wash. As he scrubbed, the water that touched the
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Speaker 1: pot turned pink and bubbly and smelt like delicate rose.
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Speaker 1: Once the pot was clean, he relaxed in his magical
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Speaker 1: bubble bath and made a mental note to thank Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans once again in the morning for finding them
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Speaker 1: a little bit of magic. Potato and Beans by this
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Speaker 1: time would have been in their pajamas. They'd have already
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Speaker 1: taken in their warm baths, blow dried their fur and
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Speaker 1: extra fluffy and clean, climbed into their piles of blankets.
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Speaker 1: They would have looked out at the window and smiled
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Speaker 1: at the stars, then smiled at one another and bade
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Speaker 1: each other a good night. Then they would have dreamed
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Speaker 1: dreams of magic pots, magic pans, plates and bold, magic ladles,
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Speaker 1: magic whisks, magic spatureless and forks in the sky far above,
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Speaker 1: the moon would be smiling down on the cozy little
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Speaker 1: diner slap down in the middle of nowhere, but as
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Speaker 1: cozy and homely as the coziest home