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Are you guys ready for today's story from Jack
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and Lennon?
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Me too? Let go.
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It was a beautiful day as Jack
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was outside cleaning some of the telescopes.
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Yes, you see, Jack worked at
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a very secret location
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that I can't even tell you where it is, but
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it has a whole bunch of telescopes because
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his job on the spy team
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is to make sure that space is
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safe. Space can be
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an endless place for endless
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mysteries because there is no
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end to it. So that is why
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we use telescopes. Telescopes help
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kids like Jack look really
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really far so that you can still
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be on our planet while looking at
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another Jack.
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Are you in there?
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Shouted Lenin, Hey.
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Lenin, Yeah, I'm over here. Come on
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in.
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Jack and Lenin are brother and sister,
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and they both love to look
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through the telescopes. You see.
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Jack is the one working there, but he.
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Also he loves to have Lenin come visit
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sometimes. Jack, you
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have to tell me. I've always wondered which
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planet is your favorite one.
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You've shown me all of them, but which
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one's your favorite. Jack didn't
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even take a second to answer. Oh,
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it's definitely Jupiter, said
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Jack. It's so amazing. It's
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the I guess planet in our solar system and
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it has this really cool red
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spot on it that it's
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just it looks so cool. You have to see it for
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yourself. The two of them started
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walking over to the biggest telescope
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of them all. It was
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not your average telescope that
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you might maybe have at home. This
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one was ginormous.
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It even had buttons to push in
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order to move like it was way too big for
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us to move. It had to be motorized
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by pushing a button. All
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right, now it's in position, said
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Jack. Just have to lock in on the coordinates.
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He grabbed a keyboard and started typing a whole
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bunch of numbers that I don't even know
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what it was, but I guess it's
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some kind of coordinate so that the you
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know, the telescope knows exactly where
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to point, because the sky is
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pretty big and Jupiter
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is only in one spot, so you have to know exactly
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where to point the telescope. The
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telescope had locked into
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the position. All right, Lenin, take
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a look. Lenon hopped into the
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seat and pressed her eye against
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the telescope lens. Huh,
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oh, wow, there it is, She said.
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That is a really cool planet. But I
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don't see a red spot anywhere.
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What are you talking about? Said Jack? It's
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ginormous. How can you miss it?
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Let me see.
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Lenin leaned back as Jack pressed
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his eye against the telescope and his mouth
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dropped open. What
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what in the world where did
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the red spot go? Shouted
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Jack.
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It's gone. Dun,
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dun, dun.
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Could it have like fallen off? Asked
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Lenin. Oh, that's impossible.
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Hold on.
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Jack raced over to a computer and started typing
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away. He was pulling up a report
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to show the most recent activity of Jupiter,
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and as he printed out all the reports, he
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couldn't believe it. Look
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at this, It is not
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supposed to spin that fast, look,
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Lenin didn't quite understand what reports
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she was looking at, but it was all
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in red and red
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on reports. That usually
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means there's a problem there.
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Okay.
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Basically what you understand
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is the Jupiter is supposed
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to spin it at a certain speed, but
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it's like spinning over a thousand
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times faster than normal.
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That can't be possible, except
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if there's somebody out there doing it
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to Jupiter, and that could have messed
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up the location of that red spot.
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I don't know what else to do, but I have got
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to get to space. Do you want to come with?
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Lenin? Couldn't believe it? Yes?
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Could I please come with?
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That? Sounds awesome? All right, there's
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some extra space gear over there in that closet.
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We better get going. Let's go. Jack
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and Lenin put on all this space
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gear and hopped into
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a rocket ship. You see, since
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Jack is on our space squad,
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it's his job to protect space, and every
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once in a while, something crazy happens in
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space that he sees through the telescope
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and he has to blast off the space to save
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the day. And it looks like today
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is one of those days.
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Three two one.
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The rocket blast off, leaving
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planet Earth on a NonStop
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flight to Jupiter. Whoa,
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this is awesome, shouted
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Lenin as she was holding on tight
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to the armrests on chair. Yes,
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I know, but it's gotta go even faster.
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We've got to get there now
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in order to stop Jupiter
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from blowing up. If it continues
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spinning at that speed, it will
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surely self destruct. Jack
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leaned forward towards the desk,
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where there was a whole bunch of buttons. There
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was one big red button. Hold
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on tight, he shouted as
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he pushed the button.
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They were both thrusted back
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into their seats.
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Their faces felt like they were gonna melt
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off as they were blasting off
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through space at a super duper
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high speed. Before
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they could even catch their breath, they
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had arrived. Holy smokes,
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look how fast it's spinning, said
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Lennon. Jack couldn't believe
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it. He was almost speechless. Jupiter
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was spinning a super
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super fast speed, and it was spinning
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so fast that it's now
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not even really like a big
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ball like you know our planets are.
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They're big spheres, like
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a really big beach ball. And
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if that ball starts spinning too
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fast, it starts getting pulled
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out from itself. And it turns
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not really into a ball but a flat disk.
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And then oh no,
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Jupiter is starting to get squished
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before it will explode. Wait
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a second, Jack, that can't
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be Jupiter. Look that planet over
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there has a big red spot. Jack
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turned his head and couldn't believe it. No,
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no, no, no, no, no no, that's not Jupiter.
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That's Saturn. Saturn
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has those big flat rings
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that go all the way around the planet. But
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you're right, Wait a suckond
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It has a big red spot.
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Both of their mouths dropped open
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as they just could not believe what in
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the world was going on.
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Holy smokes, What in
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the.
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World kind of mystery have Jack
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and Lennon stumbled into?
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Are they going to be able to rescue
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Jupiter before it explodes?
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I can't imagine that an exploding
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planet would be very good for our solar system.
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We'll have to wait and see what happens on the next
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episode of Kids Short Stories.
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Great job, you listened all the
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way to the end, and you know what tem it is.
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It's time for could shout
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out? I want to say to Akiva
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from Baltimore, Kai and Alex
8:48
from Maryland, Vano and Raffie from
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California, Elsie and Oliver from Iowa,
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some are from the Netherlands, Jack
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from Texas, Jack and Charlie from Colorado,
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and pet Her from Abbosford Britis. Glummy, I'm
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so glad that you're all in the kid short Stories family and
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on our spy team. We could not stop Doctor
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Stinky Breath and his crew without you,
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my friends. Well, I will see you at
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the Trivia game show live on Kids
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short Stories Instagram.
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Have a super duper day.
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Bye,
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