In tonight's bedtime story for kids, we're heading to the dimpled dumpling café, which has just opened up in Lower Starry Skies. The owner, Uma, a mysterious lady from a far off land, has plenty of stories to share- but only if someone orders the correct combination from the menu. Let's see if someone can win a story tonight. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Koala Moon, 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: a dream. Welcome to the Cocoa Clubhouse. New recruits. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: we're saying hi to Theya and Nora in Seattle, Eponine, Nora,
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Speaker 1: Mere and Cam from Michigan, Winnie from Portland, and Maddie,
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Speaker 1: Raven and Caleb from Australia. Hi, guys, and welcome, Thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us and supporting the show. Tonight's
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Speaker 1: tale talks about inspiration. Now, who knows when a flash
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Speaker 1: of inspiration or strike. It's a slippery fish of a thing,
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Speaker 1: a shooting star of thought, a maddeningly mysterious magic moment.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever been doing nothing only to find yourself
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Speaker 1: suddenly galvanized into action because of something you thought of
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Speaker 1: or seen. That is the curious nature of inspiration, And
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Speaker 1: I think its unreliability is partly why it's so magic.
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Speaker 1: You can't force it, but trust that it'll come when
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Speaker 1: you need it. Sometimes it occurs when I'm cooking and
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Speaker 1: I realize two ingredients will go perfectly together. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: it comes when I'm writing these introductions or working on
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Speaker 1: a painting and feeling a bit stuck. Well. In to
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Speaker 1: Night's story, we are making our way back to the
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Speaker 1: village of Lower Starry Skies, where a new cafe has
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Speaker 1: opened up, The Dimpled Dumpling. Its owner, Uma has some
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Speaker 1: stories to share, and it seems like she has a
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Speaker 1: little bit of mystical magic helping her do. So lie
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Speaker 1: back and relax as I begin. The Dimpled Dumpling and
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Speaker 1: the crass On Moon by Jane Thomas. If you ever
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Speaker 1: visit the village of Lower Starry Skies, you would think
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Speaker 1: that nothing had changed there for hundreds of years. And
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Speaker 1: you'd almost be right, because they are the same buildings
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Speaker 1: and the same lanes and the same wrought iron gates
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Speaker 1: that have been in place since the village first began.
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Speaker 1: But every now and then something does change. Unless you
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Speaker 1: lived there, you would hardly be likely to notice. But
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Speaker 1: each time one shot closes and another one opens, each
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Speaker 1: time a new school teacher arrives, and each time someone
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Speaker 1: brings a new dog or cat to live with them,
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Speaker 1: everyone in Lower Starry Skies notices come to that. The
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Speaker 1: dogs and cats notice new arrivals too. They're a new
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Speaker 1: smells to be sniffed, and new lost balls to find
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Speaker 1: and new things to bark at through the window. Just
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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, one of the storefronts near the
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Speaker 1: wool shop got a new coat of paint. Everyone in
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Speaker 1: the village had a good old gossip about that. And
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Speaker 1: then shortly after the wooden panels that had been covering
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Speaker 1: the windows were taken down and everyone could peer inside.
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Speaker 1: They saw sofas and plump cushions start to appear, and
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Speaker 1: little sets of chairs and tables, And then, to everyone's surprise,
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Speaker 1: they looked in one morning and saw that the back
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Speaker 1: wall was entirely covered in plants, ferns and ivy and
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Speaker 1: herbs poured over the sides of little pots that were
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Speaker 1: hung along the white washed wall, bright splashes of green
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Speaker 1: that matched the counter that appeared the following day. The
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Speaker 1: final touch, as if the new owner had been teasing
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Speaker 1: the residence of Lower Starry Skies, was the name in
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Speaker 1: glorious golden letters, the Dimpled Dumpling, it announced, and underneath,
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Speaker 1: in a beautiful flowing script, it said cakes and surprises
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Speaker 1: in all shapes and sizes. The grand opening was on
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Speaker 1: a Saturday, and everyone came into the little cafe at
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Speaker 1: one point or another. Aunt Tillie brought Beau for afternoon tea,
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Speaker 1: and Sam, who works in the bookshop, popped in for
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Speaker 1: his lunch break, and Missus Bumble turned up with her
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Speaker 1: cat Snowball. Mister Featherman came and was delighted to see
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Speaker 1: there were gingerbread cookies in the shape of garden gnomes,
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Speaker 1: and even Missus Willingworth came in along with mister Bartholomew,
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Speaker 1: where they sat and talked about floral arrangements for the
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Speaker 1: church while eating Dela. Little roses piped so perfectly onto
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Speaker 1: the tops of soft, fluffy sponge cake, and words spread
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Speaker 1: around the village and even up to upper starry skies too,
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Speaker 1: that the Dimple Dumpling had the most fabulous cakes and
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Speaker 1: buns and biscuits and doughnuts for miles and miles around.
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Speaker 1: The owner and cake baker and server and wash her
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Speaker 1: upper were one and the same. Lady, a tiny woman
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Speaker 1: who wore her hair tied up in colorful scarves, and
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Speaker 1: who moved so fast she seemed to almost glide around
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Speaker 1: the little cafe. She was called Uma and had come
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Speaker 1: all the way from India to share her cakes with
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Speaker 1: the world, or at least with the residents. Of lower
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Speaker 1: starry skies. Uma had heard magical tales of the small
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Speaker 1: village on the edge of sleepy forest, and she had
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Speaker 1: dreamed for years of moving there. Night after night, she
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Speaker 1: had practiced her recipes, learning to make the most chocolatey
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Speaker 1: chocolate cake and the creamiest cream buns and the stickiest
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Speaker 1: sticky toffee pudding. And only when she was absolutely sure
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Speaker 1: she was ready did she dare to make the move
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Speaker 1: halfway round the world. Within a few days, everyone had
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Speaker 1: fallen in love with a dimple dumpling and Uma and
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Speaker 1: her seemingly endless variety of colorful scarves. But it took
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Speaker 1: a whole two weeks for anyone to discover what the
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Speaker 1: sign on the shop front really meant. Cakes and surprises
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Speaker 1: in all shapes and sizes didn't just mean cakes and
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Speaker 1: cookies and buns. It didn't just mean you could bite
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Speaker 1: into something that looked exactly like a strawberry and find
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Speaker 1: it really tasted of banana. Nor did it just mean
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Speaker 1: that if it was your birthday, Uma somehow knew and
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Speaker 1: slipped you an extra sparkly cupcake. No, the surprises part
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Speaker 1: of the sign meant something very different. Indeed, as a
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Speaker 1: little girl called Emily happened to discover. One day, Emily
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Speaker 1: had visited the Dimple Dumpling with her grandmother. They settled
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Speaker 1: into the sofa by the window, the one covered in
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Speaker 1: deep red velvet with gold tassels that brushed against the
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Speaker 1: polished floor, and having established they were the temporary owners
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Speaker 1: of this very special sofa by covering it in bags
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Speaker 1: and coats and gloves, they took it in turns to
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Speaker 1: head to the counter and choose their afternoon treat. Emily's
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Speaker 1: grandmother returned and said she had ordered the plum pudding
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Speaker 1: with warm custard, and Emily almost said that it sounded
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Speaker 1: wonderful and she would have the same, But then she
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Speaker 1: decided to head to the counter herself. She eyed up
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Speaker 1: the muffins and scones and thick slices of cake, and
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Speaker 1: finally settled on a croiscant. Well, she didn't know what
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Speaker 1: it was really, so when Uma came with her pad
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Speaker 1: of paper and poured a pencil from behind her ear,
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Speaker 1: ready to take down their order, Emily just asked for
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Speaker 1: the pastry that looks like a crescent of moon. Uma
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Speaker 1: beamed at her. What a wonderful choice, she said softly,
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Speaker 1: before adding and what would you like to drink with that?
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Speaker 1: Emily usually asked for hot chocolate, ideally with extra marshmallows
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Speaker 1: and a generous dollop of cream piled on top. But
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Speaker 1: to day, something inside told her to go with tea.
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Speaker 1: She was a little surprised to hear herself say she
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Speaker 1: would have jasmine tea please. Uma placed her hand on
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Speaker 1: her heart and smiled down at the little girl sat
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Speaker 1: beside her grandmother. The pastry that looks like a crescent
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Speaker 1: of moon and a jasmine tea. Why you've only gone
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Speaker 1: and chosen to day's magic potion. Emily smiled back at Uma,
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Speaker 1: but was a little confused. Uma rushed to explain. Every
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Speaker 1: day I pick a combination, I keep it as a
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Speaker 1: secret all to myself, and I wait for somebody to
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Speaker 1: order that combination, and if somebody does, then I tell
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Speaker 1: them a story all about their chosen cake. I've been
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Speaker 1: waiting for two weeks for somebody to unlock the secret,
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Speaker 1: and today you've done it. You're the first customer to
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Speaker 1: find the magic formula. Uma had spoken loudly enough that
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Speaker 1: everyone in the cafe could hear, and by the time
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Speaker 1: she finished, all the people had put down their forks
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Speaker 1: and their coffee cups, and there was no rattling of
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Speaker 1: crockery and cutlery, and there was a special stillness in
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Speaker 1: the air. As they all looked towards Umer, they saw
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Speaker 1: a golden cloud settle around her shoulders and fall softly
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Speaker 1: down her back and all the way to the floor.
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Speaker 1: It was as if a golden cloak had appeared and
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Speaker 1: wrapped itself about the tiny lady. Uma closed her eyes,
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Speaker 1: and everyone in the cafe shifted quietly to the edge
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Speaker 1: of their seats. The plants on the back wall rustled
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Speaker 1: with anticipation, and had anyone been watching the counter rather
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Speaker 1: than Uma, they would have seen the small China elephant
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Speaker 1: that stood in place there turn its head to face
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Speaker 1: towards Uma too. The wall lights dimmed themselves, and Uma
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Speaker 1: began her story. Legend has it that long long ago,
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Speaker 1: in the days when dragons walked the lands and princesses
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Speaker 1: lived high at the tops of twisted towers, a young
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Speaker 1: baker was cycling his way to work. His name was Francois,
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Speaker 1: and as was often the case, he was late for
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Speaker 1: You see, bakers will arrive at work in the very
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Speaker 1: earliest hours of the morning, preparing the bread and the
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Speaker 1: buns every single day, so that they emerge fresh and
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Speaker 1: warm from the oven, just as everyone else is waking
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Speaker 1: and wanting breakfast. So even though Francois was late, it
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Speaker 1: was still very very early. Indeed, it was so early
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Speaker 1: that as he rattled along on his bike one of
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Speaker 1: those that is held together with string and hope, the
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Speaker 1: stars and the moon were still in the sky. The
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Speaker 1: soft light of dawn was just thinking about coming up
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Speaker 1: over the horizon, but there were still little twinkles of
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Speaker 1: silver here and there. The moon was just the tiniest
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Speaker 1: sliver of a moon, one of those slices of a
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Speaker 1: crescent that sometimes lies on its back and looks just
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Speaker 1: like a golden hammock. Francois stared up at the moon,
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Speaker 1: imagining what it would be like to sit and swing
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Speaker 1: in a golden hammock and look back down on the world.
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Speaker 1: And he quite forgot to look where he was going,
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Speaker 1: for all of a sudden, with a splash and a
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Speaker 1: crash and an oh my and a bother, he ended
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Speaker 1: up in a pond water lilies rushed to get out
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Speaker 1: of his way in time, and a frog out for
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Speaker 1: a peaceful early morning swim dived into the muddy depths
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Speaker 1: to escape being completely squashed by the young Francois and
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Speaker 1: his rusted bicycle. Francois spat out a mouthful of pond
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Speaker 1: water and lay on his back, floating beneath the sky
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Speaker 1: that was now edged with pink as the sun crept
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Speaker 1: slowly upwards. Wouldn't it be wonderful, he thought to himself,
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Speaker 1: to make something to eat that was so perfectly curved
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Speaker 1: as that little crescent moon. He got to his feet
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Speaker 1: and clambered onto the side, reaching over to pull the
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Speaker 1: bicycle from the pond. As he squelched his way towards
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Speaker 1: the bakery, each press of the pedals releasing another spurt
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Speaker 1: of pond water from his boots. He raced through recipes
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Speaker 1: in his mind. By the time he arrived, Francois was
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Speaker 1: beginning to develop a plan. He didn't want to create
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Speaker 1: something that just looked like a crescent of moon. He
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Speaker 1: had imagined what it might actually feel like, and he
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Speaker 1: wanted something soft and light, with a little crunch for
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Speaker 1: the outside and a dough that seemed as light as
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Speaker 1: air inside. He ignored the comments of the other baker's
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Speaker 1: and brushed off his muddy appearance by explaining that a
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Speaker 1: donkey had suddenly appeared in the road and pushed him
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Speaker 1: into the pond. It was a slightly less embarrassing story
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Speaker 1: than admitting he'd been so distracted by a narrow segment
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Speaker 1: of moon that he had crashed into the pond, or
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Speaker 1: by himself. The others in the team were well used
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Speaker 1: to Francois being late, and could almost run the entire
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Speaker 1: operation without him, if true be told. But they liked
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Speaker 1: the young boy, and he did have some wonderful ideas sometimes,
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Speaker 1: so they let him turn up late and disappear into daydreams.
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Speaker 1: So when he asked if they could possibly spare him
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Speaker 1: so he could try a little experiment, they exchanged knowing
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Speaker 1: looks and smiles and said that yes, he could use
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Speaker 1: the old oven in the back to conjure something up.
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Speaker 1: Francois placed a gleaming white apron over his soggy clothes
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Speaker 1: and set to work, pulling jars of flour and sugar
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Speaker 1: from the shelves and taking a bright yellow pat of
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Speaker 1: butter and a huge jug of milk fresh from the dairy.
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Speaker 1: He poured and waghed and measured until he had everything
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Speaker 1: he needed in the bowl. Then he kneaded and pushed
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Speaker 1: and pulled and rolled all the ingredients together to make
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Speaker 1: a soft ball of dough. Next, he rolled the ball
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Speaker 1: of dough flat, pushing the corners out across the tabletop
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Speaker 1: to form a huge rectangle. And now for the experiment.
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Speaker 1: Francois thought that if he added butter to one half
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Speaker 1: and then folded the dough back upon itself, this would
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Speaker 1: create a sort of butter barrier. He did this again
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Speaker 1: and again, leaving the dough to rest in between each
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Speaker 1: layer of butter he added, folding and pushing it back
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Speaker 1: into a rectangle, forcing more and more butter into his creation.
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Speaker 1: The other bakers peered around the corner at times, curious
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Speaker 1: to see what young Francois was up to this time,
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Speaker 1: and they shook their heads and tutted and wondered what
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Speaker 1: on earth he thought he was doing. Surely, they whispered
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Speaker 1: to each other. Surely, all the butter would just pull
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Speaker 1: and melt and pull the dough apart as soon as
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Speaker 1: it hit the heat of the oven. All his careful
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Speaker 1: folding and rolling. Folding and rolling meant that by the
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Speaker 1: time Francois was satisfied with his work, he had carefully
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Speaker 1: created a stack of dough that consisted of eighty one layers.
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Speaker 1: Eighty one layers of dough and butter that he carefully
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Speaker 1: cut into a triangle and rolled into a crescent shape.
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Speaker 1: He took one single, small crescent and placed it gently
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Speaker 1: in the oven, sitting down in front of the door
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Speaker 1: to watch through the glass. He was sure his idea
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Speaker 1: was correct, but just to be on the safe side,
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Speaker 1: he crossed his fingers behind his back for a dose
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Speaker 1: of good luck, and as he watched, he saw that
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Speaker 1: he had guessed just right. The butter bubbled up and
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Speaker 1: pushed the layers of dough apart. The crescent of pastry
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Speaker 1: grew and grew the air, pushing it higher and higher.
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Speaker 1: He left it in the oven long enough for the
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Speaker 1: outer layer to turn darker and crispier closing his eyes
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Speaker 1: and imagining that gentle crunch of the outside leading down
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Speaker 1: to soft, lighter than air dough on the inside. The
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Speaker 1: scent that poured from the oven was like nothing the
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Speaker 1: other bakers had ever known. They left their benches and
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Speaker 1: their tables, left their loaves and rolls, and piled into
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Speaker 1: the tiny back kitchen with the old oven to see
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Speaker 1: what magic Francois was creating. They all gasped as he
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Speaker 1: finally opened the door and removed a little crescent pastry,
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Speaker 1: a golden swooping curve. Why, said one softly, It looks
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Speaker 1: just like the moon. Francois grinned and nodded, and said
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Speaker 1: that was the plan all along, to pour the wonder
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Speaker 1: of the universe into a single pastry. The most senior
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Speaker 1: baker stepped forwards and reached out his hand. Francois placed
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Speaker 1: the pastry there and watched as the baker bit it.
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Speaker 1: Everyone hearing the initial crunch and then seeing the softness
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Speaker 1: of the inside. Hundreds of layers of dough, thousands of
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Speaker 1: pockets of air created a texture the baker had never known.
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Speaker 1: Quite extraordinary, dear boy, quite remarkable, he said to Francois,
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Speaker 1: pointing to the remaining dough on the counter, and can
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Speaker 1: you make more? Do you think? Francois nodded eagerly, quickly
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Speaker 1: slicing the triangles and rolling them into bundles ready for
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Speaker 1: the oven. It was an immediate success, with people coming
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Speaker 1: from villages miles away to be the first to taste
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Speaker 1: the slice of moon. And that is the story of
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Speaker 1: the croissant, for that is what it was called. You see,
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Speaker 1: a croissant is a crescent of moon in French, and
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Speaker 1: that is where Francois lived. That is, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: how this beautiful light treat came into being. You see,
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Speaker 1: these things are often surrounded in myths and legends and
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Speaker 1: stories that each seem as likely as another. This one's
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Speaker 1: my favorite. Umer smiled shyly and looked up at the
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Speaker 1: people in her cafe. The lights shone a little brighter
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Speaker 1: once more, and the golden cloak seemed to fade from
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Speaker 1: her shoulders. A China elephant on the count her sighed
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Speaker 1: contentedly and turned his head back the rightful way, and
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Speaker 1: the ferns and the ivy and the herbs on the
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Speaker 1: wall gave a satisfied russell. Emily's grandmother spoke for everyone
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Speaker 1: when she leaned forwards and took the tiny lady's hand, quietly,
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Speaker 1: informing Uma that the story was enchanting, absolutely enchanting. Uma
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Speaker 1: turned to Emily, and now I must, of course get
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Speaker 1: you your croissant and jasmine tea. She drifted back towards
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Speaker 1: the counter, as if nothing had happened, as if the
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Speaker 1: world hadn't stopped for a few minutes while she had
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Speaker 1: told the story her front sore and the golden hammock
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Speaker 1: of a moon and how the crassunt first came to be.
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Speaker 1: The Dimpled Dumpling had been the talk of Lower Starry
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Speaker 1: Skies before that day, but afterwards, Goodness, how quickly news
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Speaker 1: can spread. When Aunt Tillie heard the news, she had
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Speaker 1: a good chuckle to herself. Uma she decided was a
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Speaker 1: very smart lady. Indeed, not only could she bake the
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Speaker 1: most wonderful cakes for males around, she had also given
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Speaker 1: people a very good reason to keep going back to
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Speaker 1: the cafe. And because nobody ever knew what the day's
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Speaker 1: magic combination would be, every one would go back time
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Speaker 1: and again, ordering things they might never have dreamed of
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Speaker 1: ordering if they didn't think there was a chance for
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Speaker 1: a little in chant as well. Yes, said Aunt Tillie Tobou,
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Speaker 1: she's a very smart lady indeed, And yes, she assured him,
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Speaker 1: we will go there as often as we can, and
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Speaker 1: maybe we too will be lucky enough to be in
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Speaker 1: the Dimpled Dumpling someday when another story is told. And
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Speaker 1: just like that, Lower Starry Skies had transformed forever. Everyone
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Speaker 1: talked about baking and cakes, and everyone passed around their
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Speaker 1: own stories and secret recipes. Some of them searched high
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Speaker 1: and low for the truth of Francois and the pond
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Speaker 1: and the old oven at the back of the bakery,
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Speaker 1: But try as they might, they couldn't find this written anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps it was a story passed down by word of mouth,
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Speaker 1: said some, And it was never written. Perhaps she just
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Speaker 1: made it up, said others. Perhaps, said Aunt Tillie wisely,
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Speaker 1: when Bo asked her what she thought. Perhaps it doesn't
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Speaker 1: really matter at all, And she was probably right. As
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Speaker 1: long as Uma made her wonderful cakes and told her
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Speaker 1: magical stories and enchanted even the ferns and the China elephant,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't so very important if the tales were real
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Speaker 1: or not. She could make the world stop for a
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Speaker 1: few moments and have people forget everything but the story
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Speaker 1: that was unfolding right in front of them, And she
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Speaker 1: gave them dreams of sponge sugar and frosted icing and
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Speaker 1: a rainbow of hundreds and thousands, and of swinging softly
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Speaker 1: asleep in a golden Hammock moon. You do what you