In tonight's bedtime story for kids, we meet up with Super Saul, as he visits his grandparents, and learns that his Grandpa is somewhat of a superhero himself.So relax, get sleepy, and let's begin.
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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Coco Sleep, a 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: hundreds of new stories from now on, plus all the
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Speaker 1: new ones that are coming your way too. Tonight, we're
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Speaker 1: entering the land of superheroes again with Super Saul, and
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Speaker 1: it's full of surprises. It will soon become clear that
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Speaker 1: not all heroes wear capes and brightly colored costumes, and
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Speaker 1: many of them walk amongst us all the time. In fact,
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Speaker 1: there might be one sitting right next to you right now.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered what your grandparents were like when
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Speaker 1: they were younger? Have you ever asked them what the
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Speaker 1: most exciting thing they've ever done is In tonight's story,
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Speaker 1: Super Saul, as we know him, learns things about his
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Speaker 1: grandparents that he never knew before. During this story, it
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Speaker 1: becomes clear to him that his very own grandpa is
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Speaker 1: something of a superhero himself. Let's find out how. Snuggle
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Speaker 1: down in your bed and find your comfiest spot, Perhaps
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Speaker 1: flap the blankets around a bit and wriggle until you're
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Speaker 1: ready to be still, and then take some nice deep breaths.
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Speaker 1: That's it, Breathe in and out. Maybe even have a
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Speaker 1: little sigh on your next outbreath. Hmm, there we are.
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Speaker 1: Now close your eyes as I begin. Super Saul's Super
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Speaker 1: Grandpa by Alicia Ainslie. At first glance, Saul You Sorrow
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Speaker 1: appears to be just like any other normal eight year
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Speaker 1: old child. However, when you dive deeper and get to
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Speaker 1: know Saul, you learn something absolutely amazing about him. Saul
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Speaker 1: You Sorrow is a superhero. Saul his lots of unbelievable
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Speaker 1: magical abilities. They're so incredible that most people wouldn't believe
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Speaker 1: it if you told them. The adults certainly don't believe it,
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Speaker 1: so Saul hides away his superhuman powers from them, but
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Speaker 1: the other children know, children know what Saul can do.
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Speaker 1: Saul has a number of powerful abilities that keep growing
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Speaker 1: and developing as he gets older. So far, he can
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Speaker 1: see through walls with his X ray vision and run
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Speaker 1: at the speed of light. He has super hearing and
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Speaker 1: can hear a pin drum far away, and he can
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Speaker 1: even manipulate plants and flowers to bloom and grow as
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Speaker 1: he pleases. On top of all this, he has a
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Speaker 1: super elasticated body, so he can stretch his arms out
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Speaker 1: as far as he needs to reach what he wants.
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Speaker 1: It all sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it. Yes, Saul is
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Speaker 1: an incredible child with incredible magical abilities. But despite all
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Speaker 1: the amazing things that make him very unique, there are
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Speaker 1: still aspects about him that make him the same as
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Speaker 1: other children his age. He still enjoys doing lots of
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Speaker 1: things at other kids his age like to do. He
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Speaker 1: loves playing at the park with his friends and watching
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Speaker 1: movies at the cinema. He adores playing board games and
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Speaker 1: participating in several weekend activity clubs like football and drama,
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Speaker 1: and in the school holidays, he always looks forward to
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Speaker 1: visiting his family, whom he doesn't get to see regularly.
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Speaker 1: Saul and his parents live in England, across the country
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Speaker 1: from his Grandpa Gus and Grandma Suzi, so during the
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Speaker 1: school holidays they drive to visit them and spend some
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Speaker 1: quality time together. Saul really enjoys visiting his grandparents. His
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Speaker 1: grandma always makes lots of cakes and sweet treats ready
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Speaker 1: for their arrival and affectionately fusses over Saul as soon
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Speaker 1: as he arrives. Meanwhile, his Grandpappy is a quiet and
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Speaker 1: reserved man, but he is still very kind and attentive
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Speaker 1: and asks Saul lots of questions about how Schorled and
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Speaker 1: his clubs are going. Whenever they would visit, Saul and
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Speaker 1: his Grandpappy would kick a ball around the back garden
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Speaker 1: for hours together, but Saul would always be careful not
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Speaker 1: to let his magical abilities slip. Sometimes it could be
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Speaker 1: easy to forget to keep his powers a secret when
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Speaker 1: he was relaxed and having fun. So when the half
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Speaker 1: term holidays rolled around again, Saul and his parents packed
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Speaker 1: up the car and drove across the country to visit
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Speaker 1: Grandpa Gus and Grandma Susy. Despite white Grandpa Gus and
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Speaker 1: Grandma Susie growing up and living in America with Saul's
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Speaker 1: mother for many years. They now lived in Cornwall in England,
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Speaker 1: in a cozy bungalow by the sea. Every time Saul
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Speaker 1: and his parents visited Grandpa Gus and Grandma Susie, he
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Speaker 1: felt like a little vacation in another country. The weather
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Speaker 1: was always beautiful and sunny, and the beaches were full
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Speaker 1: of surfers riding the waves. It was a long drive
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Speaker 1: to Cornwall, but Saul read books and sang along to
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Speaker 1: the radio with his parents to pass the time. When
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Speaker 1: they finally arrived at Saul's grandparents beautiful blue bungalow, they
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Speaker 1: were greeted with big hugs and Gus and Susie's familiar
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Speaker 1: friendly voices. Everyone was so happy to see each other again.
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Speaker 1: As soon as Saul and his grandparents had brought their
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Speaker 1: bags inside, Grandma Susie unveiled an array of cakes and
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Speaker 1: biscuits that she had freshly baked for their arrival. Saul's
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Speaker 1: eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. Seeing his delighted expression,
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Speaker 1: Saul's mother whispered, you can only have one thing right now, Saul,
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Speaker 1: otherwise you won't have space for dinner. Saul nodded his head,
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Speaker 1: but was secretly disappointed. She wanted to eat everything right now,
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Speaker 1: it all looked so tasty. He opted for a big
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Speaker 1: chocolate chip cookie, and Grandma Susy poured him a glass
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Speaker 1: of milk to pair with it. The family caught up
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Speaker 1: on what they'd all been up to lately, and Grandpa
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Speaker 1: Gas asked Saul his usual questions about how school was
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Speaker 1: and how football practice was going. Saul told him all
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Speaker 1: about his achievements, but he chose to leave out the
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Speaker 1: parts where he used his superpowers for good. His Grandpapy
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Speaker 1: would never believe that he was a superhero and had
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Speaker 1: magical powers. The next few days went by and Saul
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the usual delights of visiting his grandparents. They all
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Speaker 1: went to the beach and ate scrumptious cornish ice cream
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Speaker 1: while building sand castles and watching the surfers glide across
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Speaker 1: the waters. They relaxed and played football in the garden,
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Speaker 1: and Saul helped his grandma with the gardening. Little did
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Speaker 1: she know that the reason her hydrangers had bloomed so
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Speaker 1: wonderfully was thanks to Saul's secret powers. And every evening
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Speaker 1: they had a big, delicious dinner all together. Saul loved
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Speaker 1: grandma and Grandpa's food, and he helped out by laying
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Speaker 1: the table with cutlery and placements every night. Saul's time
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Speaker 1: at his grandparents' house was as lovely as always, and
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Speaker 1: he was doing a great job of keeping his powers
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Speaker 1: as secret from everyone. On the third day, Saul was
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Speaker 1: sitting at the dining table as his grandma and mother
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Speaker 1: chatted over a cup of tea. He had just finished
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Speaker 1: eating the last crumb of a delicious lemon cake his
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Speaker 1: grandma had made. When he started drawing, Saul liked to draw,
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Speaker 1: and on this occasion, he had decided to doodle a
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Speaker 1: picture of a superhero. The superhero had spiky black hair
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Speaker 1: similar to Saul's, curly black locks, and freckles across its
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Speaker 1: face too, just like Saul. Similar to Saul, the imaginary's
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Speaker 1: superhero wore bright red shorts instead of lycratites, and trainers
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Speaker 1: on its feet with a lightning bolt on the side
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Speaker 1: to hint at their super speed. Lastly, he drew a
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Speaker 1: black mask across their face with a blue cape billowing
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Speaker 1: out behind them. Anyone overlooking would think that Saul was
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Speaker 1: drawing a self portrait. Noticing that Saul was beavering away
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Speaker 1: over his picture, Grandma admired his handiwork. That looks very good, Saul.
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Speaker 1: She encouraged him. You know, if you like superheroes, then
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Speaker 1: you should ask your grandpa about his days in the
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Speaker 1: Armed forces. Your grandpa was somewhat of a superhero himself.
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Speaker 1: Saul's ears pricked up at this new information. His grandpappy
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Speaker 1: was a superhero. He had to know more. Excusing himself
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Speaker 1: from the table, sauw Paul disappeared off in search of
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Speaker 1: his grandpa. Saul wandered through the house and found his
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Speaker 1: Grandpappy sitting in his armchair in the living room reading
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Speaker 1: his newspaper. As Saul walked in, Grandpa Gus looked up
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Speaker 1: from the page he was reading and smiled, Hey, little guy,
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Speaker 1: Grandpa Gus greeted him. Did you like or Grandma's cake?
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Speaker 1: Saul replied that he had very much enjoyed it, but
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Speaker 1: he had something else pressing on his mind. Grandpa Saul began.
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Speaker 1: Grandma said that you are a superhero. What does she mean?
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Speaker 1: Maybe Grandpa Gus possessed the same enchanted abilities as Saul did.
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Speaker 1: Grandpa Gus chuckled and replied, oh, she did, now, did she? Well,
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Speaker 1: I assume she must be referring to my time in
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Speaker 1: the United States Air Force. Saul was intrigued. Was that
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Speaker 1: the name of a league of superheroes? What is the
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Speaker 1: United States Air Force? Saul asked. Grandpa pushed himself up
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Speaker 1: from his armchair and wandered over to the big wooden
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Speaker 1: dresser on the other side of the living room. There
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Speaker 1: were all sorts of framed photos on there that Saul
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Speaker 1: often liked to look at. There were pictures of his
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Speaker 1: mother when she was a child just like him, and
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Speaker 1: of Grandpa and Grandma when they were younger too. There
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Speaker 1: was a photograph from Saul's parents wedding day, and also
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Speaker 1: of him when he was a baby. There were photos
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Speaker 1: of his cousins as well, and some of Grandma and
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Speaker 1: Grandpa's friends. But Saul had never been able to see
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Speaker 1: what the photos on the top shelf were off He
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Speaker 1: wasn't tall enough to see yet. Grandpa Gus reached up
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Speaker 1: and pulled a silver photo frame down from the top
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Speaker 1: shelf of the dresser and lowered it to Saul to
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Speaker 1: take a look at. The photo was of a young
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Speaker 1: man in a navy blue suit and cap, standing in
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Speaker 1: front of a huge silver airplane in the background. Who
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Speaker 1: is this, Saul asked, inspecting the photo. Grandpa Guss answered,
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Speaker 1: but me, when I was a young man in the
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Speaker 1: Air Force. That was the plane that I flew. Saul
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Speaker 1: gasped with awe Grandpa could fly planes. Saul wished he
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Speaker 1: could fly. That was one magical path that he hadn't developed,
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Speaker 1: at least not yet anyway. Grandpa Gus explained that when
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Speaker 1: he was seventeen years old he signed up to join
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Speaker 1: the Air Force. He was picked out from hundreds of
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Speaker 1: applicants to be put through the rigorous training that was
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Speaker 1: required to fly the majestic planes belonging to the United
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Speaker 1: States Armed Forces. Once he had passed all his training
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Speaker 1: and learned to fly, he was in the Air Force
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Speaker 1: for over twenty years. Saul was awestruck. He had never
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Speaker 1: known this about his grandpappy. He had never really thought
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Speaker 1: much about what Grandpa was like when he was a
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Speaker 1: young man. Gazing at the framed photograph in his hand,
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Speaker 1: Saul felt like he was looking into the past. His
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Speaker 1: Grandpa looked so different to what he was like now.
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Speaker 1: He was barely recognizable with it out, his gray hair
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Speaker 1: and beard in the photo. His grandpa had black hair
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Speaker 1: and a clean shaven face. He stood tall and proud
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Speaker 1: in front of the airplane, without a walking stick in
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Speaker 1: his hand like he sometimes used nowadays. Saul looked at
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Speaker 1: his grandpa and asked, what did you do in the
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Speaker 1: Air Force? Grandpa Gus gestured to Saul to sit down
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Speaker 1: on the sofa with him while he recounted his youth
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Speaker 1: and times in the armed forces. Grandpa Gus found an
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Speaker 1: old photo album that was full of photographs from when
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Speaker 1: he was younger and worked in the United States Air Force.
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Speaker 1: He showed Saul pictures of him and his platoon, which
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Speaker 1: was another name for a group of people who worked
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Speaker 1: together in a team. Grandpa Gus record his time in
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Speaker 1: the Air Force fondly and told Saul all about the
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Speaker 1: tasks and missions they would be sent on. He said
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Speaker 1: that his favorite place in the world was up in
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Speaker 1: the sky. As Saul and his grandpa flicked through the
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Speaker 1: photo album and inspected each of the pictures, Saul noticed
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Speaker 1: someone that stood out to him. That man there looks familiar,
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Speaker 1: Saul said, conspiratorially, pointing at a man with red hair
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Speaker 1: standing next to young Grandpa in the photo. Grandpa Gus
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Speaker 1: chuckled and replied, yes, he will look familiar to you.
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Speaker 1: That is my good friend Bob, who you've met before.
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Speaker 1: We trained and worked together all those years ago. Saul
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Speaker 1: grinned with pride at his successful observation and tried to
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Speaker 1: see if he recognized anyone else in the photo, but
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Speaker 1: alas he didn't. Grandpa Gus showed Saul some photos of
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Speaker 1: the different aeroplanes that he flew in the Air Force
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Speaker 1: and told him how each one was different to the others,
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Speaker 1: so he always had to keep learning. He had even
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Speaker 1: learned how to fix the aeroplanes, although the really tricky
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Speaker 1: stuff was left to the engineers to deal with. When
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Speaker 1: they came to the end of the photo album, Grandpa
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Speaker 1: Gus had an idea. He rifled through the cupboard underneath
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Speaker 1: the wooden dresser and pulled out a dusty black box.
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Speaker 1: What's that, Saul questioned, and Grandpa Gus told him to
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Speaker 1: wait and see. Grandpa sat down again on the sofa
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Speaker 1: and brushed the dust off the top of the box.
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Speaker 1: He opened the latch that secured the box shut with
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Speaker 1: a click and opened it up wide. Saul peered over
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Speaker 1: his shoulder to look inside and exclaimed wow as he
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Speaker 1: saw what Grandpa had inside the box was an array
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Speaker 1: of gold and silver medals with multicolored ribbons attached. What
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Speaker 1: are all these for? Saul ac quizzed his grandpa, eager
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Speaker 1: to know more. Grandpa Gas explained that each medal was
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Speaker 1: for a different thing. He had been awarded them all
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Speaker 1: throughout his career in the Air Force. Grandpa Gas must
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Speaker 1: have been very brave to have received so many medals,
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Speaker 1: Saul thought. Reaching down, Grandpa lifted out a gold medal
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Speaker 1: in the shape of a cross with an eagle in
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Speaker 1: the middle of it. It was a hashed to a red,
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Speaker 1: white and blue ribbon, and Grandpa admired it proudly. This one,
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Speaker 1: Grandpa said, This one is the Earth Force Cross. Not
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Speaker 1: everybody gets this award, but I did for possessing valor, courage,
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Speaker 1: and devotion to my duty. Saul was fascinated. It was
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Speaker 1: becoming clear to Saul that Grandpa Gas wasn't a superhero
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Speaker 1: with magical abilities, but a hero in other ways. As
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Speaker 1: Grandpa Gas took a trip down memory lane recalling his
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Speaker 1: time in the Air Force, he wanted to tell Saul
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Speaker 1: more and more now that he was on a roll
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Speaker 1: together they pulled out a couple more boxes and photo
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Speaker 1: albums hidden away in the living room dresser. Inside there
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Speaker 1: were newspaper clippings and Grandpa's official certificates and documents, along
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Speaker 1: with more photos of Grandpa as he progressed through his
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Speaker 1: career and got older. Saul noticed in one of the
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Speaker 1: photos that Grandpa was standing with a pair of crutches
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Speaker 1: and a bandaged up foot. He wondered how he had
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Speaker 1: hurt his foot. Perhaps there was an exciting story behind it.
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Speaker 1: Saul pointed out the photo to his Grandpappy, and he
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Speaker 1: smiled fondly, as if lost in a pleasant memory. Do
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Speaker 1: you want to know the story behind this photograph, Grandpa
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Speaker 1: Gus posed to Saul. Saul nodded his head with interest,
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Speaker 1: and Grandpa Gus began to tell his story. One time,
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Speaker 1: he said, I got injured on the job. Aye had
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Speaker 1: been a sign to fly over an off limits airspace
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Speaker 1: to assess the area. When my plane started to malfunction,
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Speaker 1: my signals were off and my warning lights were flashing,
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Speaker 1: So to stay safe, I ejected myself from the plane,
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Speaker 1: shot up into the sky, and pulled the cord on
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Speaker 1: my back to release the parachute. I glided to the
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Speaker 1: ground safely. However, when I landed, I fell and twisted
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Speaker 1: my ankle, so I had to be taken to the
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Speaker 1: military hospital to have my ankle tended to so that
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Speaker 1: it would get better. While I was in the military hospital,
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Speaker 1: there was a very kind nurse who looked after me.
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Speaker 1: She wrapped my ankle and foot up in bandages and
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Speaker 1: gave me a pair of crutches to hobble around on
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Speaker 1: for a few weeks. She said that if I kept
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Speaker 1: pressure off my foot for a while, then my ankle
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Speaker 1: would be back to normal in no time. I thanked
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Speaker 1: her and got ready to leave the hospital. Just as
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Speaker 1: I was about to leave, the nurse asked me how
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Speaker 1: I had injured my ankle, and I explained the story
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Speaker 1: of how it happened. She seemed very impressed and said
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Speaker 1: that I was like a superhero flying through the sky.
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Speaker 1: I laughed and told her I was no hero, but
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Speaker 1: she stopped me in my tracks and told me that
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Speaker 1: I was a hero very much. So. She said, when
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Speaker 1: you help someone else or do something brave that makes
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Speaker 1: you a hero. You don't have to save the world
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Speaker 1: or make some grand gesture to be a hero. You
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Speaker 1: could do something as simple as cheering a friend up
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Speaker 1: when they're upset or go through a hard time. You
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Speaker 1: might volunteer to help out her local charity, or even
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Speaker 1: raise money for that charity. Maybe you even just help
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Speaker 1: your elderly neighbor cross the street or bring in their
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Speaker 1: groceries from the store. All of those things make you
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Speaker 1: a hero in someone's book. She said that I was
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Speaker 1: a hero because I served my country, and I should
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Speaker 1: be very proud. Saul smiled and agreed that the nurse
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Speaker 1: had been very wise. Grandpa Gus was a hero just
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Speaker 1: like the other people who served in the United States
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Speaker 1: Air Force with him. The nurse was a hero too,
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Speaker 1: because she helped lots of people in need every day,
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Speaker 1: people who were injured or ill. She was a hero
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Speaker 1: just like Grandpa. Saul asked his grandpa what he said
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Speaker 1: back to the wise nurse, and Grandpa Gus replied, I
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Speaker 1: asked her if she had any plans that evening. I
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Speaker 1: took her out for dinner, and that nurse became my wife.
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Speaker 1: That was your grandma. Saul laughed with amusement at the
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Speaker 1: way his grandpappy's story had turned. He hadn't known that
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Speaker 1: Grandma Susie served in the United States Military. Both of
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Speaker 1: Saul's grandparents were heroes, just like he was. After some time,
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Speaker 1: Saul's parents and grandma Susie came looking for Saul and Grandpa.
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Speaker 1: They hadn't seen them in a while and wondered what
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Speaker 1: mischief they were getting up to. When they found them
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Speaker 1: sitting in the living room looking through all of Grandpa's
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Speaker 1: old boxes and albums, they were surprised and sat down
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Speaker 1: to join in too. Together Grandpa and grandma recounted stories
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Speaker 1: from both of their time in the United States Armed Forces,
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Speaker 1: and Saul listened with admiration. As Saul looked around the
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Speaker 1: living room at the members of his family, he realized
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Speaker 1: that everyone was a hero in their own special way.
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Speaker 1: Grandpa had flown airplanes in the Air Force. Grandma had
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Speaker 1: been a nurse, tending to people who were sick. Saul's
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Speaker 1: father was a teacher and he helped children learn, and
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Speaker 1: his mother was a career at a retirement home. Saul
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Speaker 1: hoped that one day he would have lots of heroic
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Speaker 1: stories to tell people when he was an old man.
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Speaker 1: Now that they had started, the family couldn't stop talking
00:26:06
Speaker 1: and sharing stories about life back then. Even Saul's mother
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Speaker 1: had stories to tell from her childhood when she moved
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Speaker 1: around the country with her parents from time to time
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Speaker 1: as they were reposted with Grandpa's job. It was all
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Speaker 1: so interesting, and Saul felt proud to be a part
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Speaker 1: of a family with such an interesting past. As night
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Speaker 1: came and Saul retreated to bed, he hugged his grandparents
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Speaker 1: good night and gave them both an extra squeeze. He
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Speaker 1: had really enjoyed learning more about them today. They were
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Speaker 1: even cooler than he had originally thought. Saul curled up
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Speaker 1: in bed and closed his eyes. Not before long, he
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Speaker 1: had drifted off to sleep and was having a riveting dream.
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Speaker 1: Saul dreamt that he had developed a new superpower and
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Speaker 1: was flying through the sky. He could feel the wind
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Speaker 1: in his curly hair and felt his blue cape flowing
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Speaker 1: out behind him as he shot through the clouds. As
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Speaker 1: he emerged on the other side of the white, fluffy clouds,
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Speaker 1: he flew next to a big silver aeroplane and hovered
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Speaker 1: level with the window to look inside inside the plane
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Speaker 1: with his grandpa. Grandpa Gus was flying the aeroplane through
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Speaker 1: the sky, and he saluted Saul as he flew alongside. Together,
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Speaker 1: Saul and his Grandpa flew through the open skies, side
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Speaker 1: by side, all the way until more when Saul could
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Speaker 1: see his grandpa back on the ground again and hear
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Speaker 1: more stories about his time as a real life superhero.