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Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome

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back to Kids Short Stories. Today's

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story comes to us from one of

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my friends, Grace. Hey Grace,

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she sent me an awesome idea for a story,

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and you can't too. Just head over to kids short stories

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dot com, click the link to

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fill out the form for story submissions,

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and then send me your idea. It can just be a

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couple of sentences or something that

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you think is really cool. Well,

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friends, are you ready for a world

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where there's alien trees? Me

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too, Let's go. It

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was a beautiful day as Grace

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and all of her friends were building

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treehouses in their neighborhood.

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Holy smokes, that sounds

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like an amazing neighborhood to live

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in. Whoa that they have a

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force right there and they're all

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building tree houses. Have

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you ever been inside of a treehouse

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before? And you have to climb

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up a ladder to get all

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the way in and you pull yourself up and

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then wow, it's like you're in a different

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world up there. I love

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going in treehouses and treehouses

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that have walls and windows and

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even a roof. Those are the

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craziest coolest ones. Hey,

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guys, have you seen all these vines

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that are like connected to all the trees,

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asked Grace. Uh,

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I didn't notice those before, but those are

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pretty strange looking, said one of her

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friends. She was right. All

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the trees had this strange vine

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connected to it that seemed to be all

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running in the same direction through the forest.

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I'll definitely need to check that out later. Grace

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thought to herself, Hey, guys, I'm

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gonna go grab some more nails and

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some more tools. Okay, I'll be right back. Okay,

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see you. Grace great started

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jogging back to her house. At

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her house, there were all the kind of tools

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that she needed, like some rope and

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a hammer and a screwdriver and

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everything that you need to build an amazing

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treehouse. All right, I need

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some of those and some of these.

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She had grabbed a bag and was filling it

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up with all the things she needed

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and wanted to share with her friends as they were building

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this amazing community of

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treehouses. And then all of a sudden,

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she heard some screaming, ah,

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help, help,

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somebody help us.

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It was coming from the forest. Grace

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dropped her bag and started running as

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fast as she could to the forest. She

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thought that somebody might have gotten hurt. Guys,

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what's going on? Are you okay?

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Somebody hurt? Grolve

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help. We're stuck inside

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of the treehouse. Something weird

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happened in the tree just like closed this

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in. Oh. Grace

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couldn't believe her eyes. The

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branches on the trees had

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almost It looked like they were hugging

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the treehouses and

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it made it impossible for

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the people inside to escape.

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What in the world happened to those trees,

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she thought to herself, and then she

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saw it. The tree branches

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started to move like arms.

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The trees had come alive. Grace

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knew exactly what she had to do. She

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had to call into HQ, so she

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ran back to her house to grab a walkie

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talkie. HQ,

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this is Grace. I have a huge emergency

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over sh Grace.

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What is the emergency?

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Sh?

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Something? I don't even understand

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what happened, but me and my friends we were building

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treehouses in the forest and all of a sudden, it looks like the trees

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trees came alive and they've

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trapped my friends inside of the treehouse. Do

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you have any ideas what could be going on? Sh?

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I'm sorry, but we do not. You're

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gonna need to search around and look for clues.

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Look for something that looks unusual,

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and let us know what you find. Over sh

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Grace put her walkie talking in her pocket and started

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running towards the forest. She had

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to start looking for clues. But what does that even

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mean? To look for something strange?

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But all the trees. That's pretty strange

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that they're like coming alive.

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Oh whoose whose?

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All of our friends were still stuck inside

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of their treehouses with no way

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out. All the branches of the

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trees had blocked the windows

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and the doors and they were

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stuck inside of their treehouse.

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Don't worry, guys, Grace shouted,

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I'm gonna get you out, And

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it's like the trees heard her. As

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soon as she shouted her her voice, the

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branches started creeping closer

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to her. Ah, whoa,

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that's creepy, said Grace. She

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ran back to her backyard to

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find a safe place out of reach of all those

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tree branches. But as she was

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running back, she tripped on one of those vines

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that she had seen earlier. Whoa,

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ow uh wait

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a second, these vines.

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I've never seen them before. I've

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never seen a bright purple vine

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before. Wow,

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very strange. And then Grace

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remembered what h Q had said on the walkie

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talkie for her to look for something that

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was strange. And that's pretty

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strange. All right, I'm

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gonna need to follow these vines and see where

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they lead to, because maybe the

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vines are part of this thing that's going

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on, Grace said to herself. But

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she has to think about how she's gonna be able

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to sneak past these trees because earlier

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it looks like they were able to hear her,

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and so she's gonna have to be really quiet,

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and just in case, she should probably wear

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some camouflage, right, Yeah,

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if you needed to blend into

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that forest, what would you use

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as camouflage? I

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think I might get

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some sticks and leaves and, like,

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I don't know, tie him onto my back to

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make Oh yeah, then I could look like a

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giant bush.

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What's your idea for a good camouflage trick

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in the forest. Well, I think Grace

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took my idea and started to build

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herself into a bush. A

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bush that was gonna walk through the forest.

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A walking bush, you know, that

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doesn't look strange at all. That

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would be pretty silly to see if you saw

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a bush moving through the forest. I

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think that would be pretty suspicious. But maybe

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maybe we can trick these strange

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trees. What do you think? As

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Grace started to crawl through the forest

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to act like a very non suspicious

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bush,

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she actually made it. She

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was able to sneak past all those trees

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and started to follow those very

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strange vines that were on

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the ground. Do you remember what color those vines

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were? Yes, purple,

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very suspicious vines. She

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got deeper and deeper into the forest,

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and all of a sudden there was a clearing up ahead.

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A clearing means there's no trees

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in the area, just grass, and she

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couldn't believe what she was seeing.

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Oh boy, I can't believe

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how many little kids wait cut in those

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tree traps.

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Yeah, that was pretty surprising that it

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actually worked. So, uh,

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what do you think we should do about it?

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Well, the bars wanted us to, you

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know, test it out with just a couple of trees, and

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then if it was successful, then

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we can roll it out to all the forests in the

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entire world.

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Oh no, that sounds

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like a purple Ninja plan. Are

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they really trying to catch all of

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us inside of tree traps.

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That sounds absolutely terrible.

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How in the world is Craze going to stop

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them before it's too late. I

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don't know. We'll have to wait and see what happens

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on the next episode of Kids Short

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Stories. Great

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job, you listened all the way to

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the end, and you know what time it is. It's

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time for Kurd shout

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out. I would say, Hey, Takoa

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and Luca from Vancouver, Meyra

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from New Zealand, Kai from

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New Zealand, Claude from the Philippines, Charlotte

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and Jack from Washington, DC Oli from

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Kansas City, and Wyatt from San

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Francisco. I'm so glad that you're all

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in the Kid Short Stories family and on

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the spy team. We could not stop doctor

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stink Key Breath and his crew without

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you, my friends. Well you have a super

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super day and

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I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.