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Welcome to the Cultural Curriculum

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Chat Podcast and if you're watching

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on my YouTube channel , mrs

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Edmond's Cultural Corner , this

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is gonna be your gateway today to

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heartwarming stories that

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celebrate the beauty of family

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bonds and cherished memories

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. So in today's episode

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we are going to ride along

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with this enchanted

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story of Daisy Ramona

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as she embarks on thrilling

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adventures around the neighborhood

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with her poppy . In the story

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, my Poppy has a

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Motorcycle . Now

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you're going to join as we explore

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this tender relationship between

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a father and his daughter while

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discovering the rich history and

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vibrant culture of their beloved

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city . So stay tuned

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to be filled with love

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and nostalgia and

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the magic of shared moments

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when communities change for

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the good or the

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better . Let's

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get into it . Hello

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everyone , if you are new here , my name is

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Jebe Edmonds and welcome

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to the show . I love

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sharing all things multicultural

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educational books , resources

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and workplace strategies to

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create more positive change

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. So this story we're talking about

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today is titled my Poppy

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has a Motorcycle , written

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by award-winning authors

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and illustrator Isabel Quintero

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and Zeke Pena . This

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is also a Pura Belpre

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Honor Book Award winner as

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well . Oh , this book

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gives me all the feels y'all

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. It is such an amazing

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story between Daisy

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Ramona and her dad . She

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loves the bond in their everyday tradition

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of riding Poppy's

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motorcycle after he gets home

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from work , after school

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, and she learns how

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he is a hard-working man . He

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is a contractor in their

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city and in California

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Corona , california and

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as soon as she hears his car , his

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truck , start to come up the

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driveway , she's ready to go . She's looking

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and tinkering in all the tools

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and he's got her special

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unicorn helmet on

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and she can just see the

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. I love doing this book if you're with

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your students and kind of looking at

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the five senses and

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seeing how your students can pick

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up on the different senses that

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Daisy is describing

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on her ride with her father , and

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I really want you to discuss

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the five senses with your students

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when you're reading this book . When she is

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on the ride along with her father , she

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talks about , you know , seeing her father

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covered in sawdust

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and you know the smells of a hard

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day's work . So I want your students

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to be active listeners and active

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participants in the story by you

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know , using a thumbs up if they

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can , you know , figure out one of the senses

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in the story that Daisy is

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describing . So , moving

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on from that , she goes into

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. You know I love the Spanish and

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English words that are

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, you know , peppered throughout the book

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. I love how , you

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know , just as a mom would say , be careful

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. You know , con cuidado . You

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know , be careful . And

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as dad and daughter are rolling

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through the driveway and taking

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off , I just love how

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this illustration

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feels like a superhero

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movie or a superhero cartoon

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and it just as a

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flash of lightning , they are

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on their adventure . I

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love how they talk

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about the changing of

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the community , the history

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. You know how I love a good historical

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context in a book and

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it talks about the ever-changing

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community and the ever-changing community , the community

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and the ever-changing evolution

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of what a community , what it

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was and what it is turning into

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be . And you're going to see

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landmarks that she's going to

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describe her Abuelita's church

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and going , and you know running

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into the school librarian

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and you know

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learning about where

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is their favorite places to get toys

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and shaved ice and

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the sights and sounds and her

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even imagining what

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it was like , you know , at the turn

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of the century , where you know citrus

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groves , and I didn't know this . I read the

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author's note and thank you

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, isabel about Corona being

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the lemon capital of the world at

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the time and how the immigrants

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that migrated to this

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part of the country did have

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a , had a historical race around

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the famous loop around the town and

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I really love showing

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and having that juxtaposition

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of our students too , to know businesses

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that have been around for a long time are now

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shuttering their doors and I

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wonder what happens to them and their

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families . And showing

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the hard work of people

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of the Latinx community

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in the story of being

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the builders , the foundation

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layers of that community

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and having that pride

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in their hard work and

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their history and their ancestry , that

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pride and their hard work and their history and their ancestry . And it just continues to show

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the ever-evolving changes of the neighborhood but also

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the vibrancies , the sights

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, the sounds , the feels , the

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laughter , the joy . It

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is just an amazing

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story and , like I said , said I don't want to give away

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too much of the book but I

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love how you know she's

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greeted with her abuelito

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and abuelita . They still have their

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old yellow house and

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the seeds of the lemons that abuelito

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used to pick were far from

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here . So just showing the

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connections of this

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tree in her grandparents

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home and and where that seed started

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. You know my mom , it was

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so sweet , she said when we were together

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a few weeks ago . We

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were in Dallas , texas

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, and there were a bunch of acorns underneath

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this oak tree and my mom said , oh

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, that is an oak tree that hasn't

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been stepped on yet . So , thinking about

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the lemon seed

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and how it becomes the lemon

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tree , those are the things you can depict

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and share with your students . And

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just , you know the adventure of

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riding , you know in the back of a motorcycle

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as a kid and you know meeting

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. You know her poppies , you know

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colleagues and listening to the

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joys and the sounds of the music and

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the noise of the construction

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tools and just feeling her

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imagination just take off , wink

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, wink . You know I love a good pun and

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so get this book . It

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is beautiful , it makes me want

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to go visit this part of our

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country and see . But you

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have Corona , california . Read

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the author's note . I always say this , educators

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before you make your lesson plan

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, read the author's note first . You

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know I was guilty in the beginning of my

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teaching days where I just find the book I wanted

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read it real quick and I was making

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my lesson . But it really gives

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you wonderful background knowledge

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about the story

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and her love letter to

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the city that she grew up in , and

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this is just a great book . I highly

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recommend it . Now , if you

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, and I will see you here same

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time next week . Bye-bye

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