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adventure. Me too. Let's go. One

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day, Jalen and his family

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went to a delicious food

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market together. Yeah,

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a farmer's market sometimes that's what they

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call it. But it was a delicious

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place filled with delicious

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food that was outside, and you

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could walk from one stand to

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the next to the next and pick out all the

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most delicious foods that you've ever seen.

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Some of it was baked, like maybe

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cookies and cakes and pies

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and oh they're so

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delicious. And other tables had

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amazing vegetables and

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fruits, and some

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had candles and butters

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and oh man, there were so

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many different things to pick from. And Jalen

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and his family loved to go to these

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places together. Well, they

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were walking around, didn't all

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of a sudden they walked up to this one table and

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there was a lady there that said, would

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you like to taste test my

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invisible apple? Jalen's

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family chuckled and glanced over to

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Jalen and said, Jalen, do you want to try it?

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He said, I don't see anything.

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What is she talking about? Oh,

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that's exactly it. You see

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right here. This is an

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invisible apple and if you eat it,

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it will turn you invisible

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too. Jalen

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didn't really believe it, but I thought she

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was, you know, pretending, And so he

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wanted to be nice and play along with her game,

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and so he reached for this

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invisible apple and

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took a bite home and

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pretend too. Can you do that

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with me? Bite into a pretend apple? He

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said, mmmmm, it's really good.

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Thanks, and the

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lady behind the table winked

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at him and grinned. And it's

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kind of strange, but all right, well,

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let's keep going. The

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rest of the day was a very fun day. They

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picked out all kinds of delicious things

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and then went home. As

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he was getting ready for bed, his parents

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asked, so, Jalen, uh,

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do you feel any invisibility powers

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coming on? He laughed,

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He said, uh, oh, yeah, yeah,

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I feel totally invisible. Watch this all

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right, Jalen, We'll see you in

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the morning. Good night, And

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then Jalen fell fast asleep.

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Well, something crazy happened in

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the middle of the night. While he was sleeping. Jalen

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turned invisible. Oh.

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As he woke up the next morning, he

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all stretched and wait

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a second, he looked down. He

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couldn't see anything. Jalen

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had turned invisible. Done,

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done, dune. He

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couldn't believe it. This was might be the

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coolest thing of all time. Can

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you imagine if you could turn invisible?

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What would you do? Well,

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Jalen, he

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was pretty excited, but also a little scared

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because he didn't know how Now

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I guess maybe that invisible apple

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really did work, and but how

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do I change back? He couldn't

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figure it out, and so he had

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to go back to the food market. As

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he ran as fast as he could to the food market,

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he forgot to tell his parents,

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and he ran back

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to the house and said, um,

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well, hey guys, I need to go

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to the back to the food market. I forgot

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something over there. I'll be right back by,

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okay, Jalen, hurry back. See

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they only heard Jalen's voice, but they

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thought it was because he was shouting from outside.

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But they didn't know that

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he was in fact invisible.

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As he ran back to the

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food market, nobody

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could see him, remember, and he was

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bumping into all kinds of different people

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and excuse me, excuse me

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sorry, And the people were looking

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around like, who just touched me? What?

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Someone just bumped into me? But I don't see anything

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that would be pretty funny. Oh

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and maybe they thought it was a ghost. Well,

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Jalen ran all the way back to the table

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and said, hey, excuse

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me, were you the lady yesterday

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that had the invisible apple? Oh,

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why, Yes, it's good to have

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you back, sir. Yeah,

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well, I'm sure you can tell.

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But it worked, and I'm invisible

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and I don't know how to turn back. What in the world

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did you do to me? Well,

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you can thank me later, but for now,

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yeah, I know, it's a little challenging

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to figure out how to turn back visible

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for the first time, but now you have invisibility

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powers for the rest of your life. The

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lady was obviously very excited,

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and she was kind of older, but she was

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dancing her cane up in the air and

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it was very excited. Okay,

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um, that's great that you're excited,

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but for now I'm stuck. So

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how do I turn back? Okay,

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Jalen, Well, you see,

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uh, the invisible apple

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is remarkable and

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it will keep you invisible

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forever until you do something

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very specific. Okay,

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what what on earth do I need

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to do? Well,

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you see, you have to climb up to this

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really tall mountain and you

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have to find a purple

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acorn. A purple

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what a purple

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acorn? You know? From a tree up

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that mountain over there, there's a tree

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with purple acorns, and

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that's the only way to change

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back and then I probably fill your

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pockets with some more purple acorns

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just in case. Okay,

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all right, bye, thanks. Raced

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as fast as he could towards

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the mountain. He had to get those purple

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acorns. What in the world purple acorns?

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That's so beard. Oh,

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I'm getting tired. Jalen had

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a long day. He was hiking up this mountain

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searching for those purple acorns, and when

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all of a sudden he finally reached the

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top and looked all around and couldn't

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find anything anywhere.

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What was she tricking me?

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He was feeling a little frustrated

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and lost and scared. Oh

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no, hello,

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what are your daring up here? U?

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Hi? I'm invisible?

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Who's who can see me? I'm

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the fuzzleb squirrel. That's

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my motor an

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invisible squirrel. Yes,

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I'm the guardian of these purplecorns.

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Oh, and that's how you can see

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me because you're purple. Well, you're invisible,

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and so these purple acorns.

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What do we do with him?

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Well, when your pup run from the roll

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and lukes run back psible um

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yeah, lettle words roll around? Oh

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okay. Jalen climbed

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up to a tree and and

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reached up and there it was. There

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was a whole tree of purple

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acorns. Perfect. He

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filled his pockets with purple acorns

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and wow, thank

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you so much, and very

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slowly his body began

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to fade back into being visible.

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Oh this

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is so great, Jalen said,

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I've never been so happy to see my fingers

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and my toes and my hands

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again. Bro,

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Just be careful now when they're

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chungs invisible. Just have a

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cupple of those purple Kron's world

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floor and then turned

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back. Wow,

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thanks, Mr invisible squirrel.

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I guess I hope you're not like a ghost.

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I'll see you later by Jalen

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got a little nervous and ran back um

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down the mountain. He had to get home because

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it was almost bedtime. He's spent like the whole day

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looking for these purple acorns up this mountain.

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And as he got home he ran inside

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and his parents he

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said, oh, Jalen, you've been gone a long time.

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What was going on? You

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won't believe this. You

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see that invisible apple. It worked.

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It turned me invisible last night and when

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I woke up and I was completely invisible. So I

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ran back to the food market and asked lady out

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to turn back, and she ran me. She told me to go run

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up a mountain and and I found

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these purple acorns, and the purple akorins turned

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me back, and and then and then

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now I'm back home. Okay,

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Jalen, thanks for the craziest story.

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But it is definitely time for bed, and

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let's go upstairs and get ready for bed. No,

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really, I really

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did that? Really did happen? That's true? And

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oh yo, oh boy, well

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oh look here, look at my pocket.

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There I have purple acorns. His

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parents looked at the purple acorns.

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They had never seen something like that before. Are

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you telling us the truth? Jalen,

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absolutely, I promise. Holy

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smokes, Jaileen, I

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think you stumbled

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into something amazing. And

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that was the day that Jalen became

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a superhero, a superhero

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with invisibility powers.

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And that invisible apple that

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he bade that he bit into and and

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ate and swallowed. He now has

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those invisibility powers forever,

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as long as he has purple acorns

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so that he can change back into normal.

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The end