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2.8.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Redioi's Children's Story Hour. As a
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  reminder of Radio Eye is a reading service intended for
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  people who are blind or have other disabilities that make
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  it difficult to read printed material. Today we will be
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  reading from various books on feelings. Your reader today is Dyingane.
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  We will begin with the book Sometimes I Feel Sad,
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  which was published by Pebble and in print of Capstone
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  and the copyright here is twenty twenty one. It was
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  written by Jacquine J. Cox. What is sadness? Imagine senior
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  friends playing a game. You run over to join them,
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  but they say you can't play. You sit down on
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  a bench all alone. You probably feel sad. Sadness is
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  an emotion or feeling. Some emotions can make us feel good,
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  but others, like sadness, can make us feel down in
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  the dumps. What does it feel like to be sad?
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  Can you think of a time you were sad? Maybe
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  you lost your favorite toy or watched a sad movie.
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  How did you feel when you are sad? Your smile
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  goes away, you get tears in your eyes, your lip
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  might shake, your heart feels heavy. You may feel tired
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  and want to stay in bed. Using your senses. Your
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  senses can make you feel different things. Everyone has five senses.
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  We can hear, smell, and touch things. We can also
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  taste and see things. Seeing someone else's cry might make
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  you sad. Hearing a sad song can get you down.
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  Maybe the smell of a homemade cookie makes you miss
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  your grandma. Talking about your feelings. Being able to say
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  how you feel is important. If you are sad, tell
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  your family or friends. They can help you. Talking about
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  it can make you feel better too. Naming your emotions
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  can be tricky, but a little practice will make it easier.
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  Just think about how you are feeling and why, then
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  say your emotion out loud. Understanding sadness, You have probably
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  been sad at one time or another, but why Maybe
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  you didn't do well on a test or had to
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  move to a new city away from your friends. It
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  is okay to feel sad sometimes, but you don't want
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  to feel sad for too long. It's helpful to know
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  what causes sadness. Then you can figure out how to
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  feel happy when you are sad. It can be hard
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  to get along with others in school. It can be
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  harder to learn. You might be distracted and not hear
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  what the teacher says. How you feel about yourself can
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  affect your emotions. If you feel good about yourself, it
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  is easy to be happy. If you feel bad about yourself,
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  it is easy to be sad. Handling your feelings when
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  you're sad. There are things you can do to feel better.
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  Crying can get out all your sad feelings. Turning on
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  upbeat music and dancing around can put you in a
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  happy mood. Going for a walk can get rid of sadness.
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  You can also help others feel better. You see someone
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  looking sad, talk to them, ask them to play with you,
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  Say something nice to them. Be positive. It helps others
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  around you feel more cheerful too. Everyone has things that
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  they are thankful for. Maybe you are thankful for your family, house, toys,
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  or favorite foods. Try to remember these things when you
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  are feeling down. It will chase your blues away. The
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  next book is called When Sophie Gets Angry, Really Really Angry,
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  and it was published by Scholastic Incorporated. It has a
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  copyright year of nineteen ninety nine and it was written
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  by Molly Bang. Sophie was busy playing when her sister
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  grabbed gorilla, No, said Sophie, Yes, said her mother. It
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  is her turn now, Sophie as her sister snatched gorilla away.
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  Sophie fell over the truck. Oh is Sophie ever angry? Now?
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  She kicks, She screams. She wants to smash the world
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  to smotherings. She roars, a red, red roar. Sophie is
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  a volcano ready to explode. And when Sophie gets angry,
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  really really angry, she runs. She runs and runs and
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  runs until she can't run anymore. Then for a little
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  while she cries. Now she sees the rocks, the trees
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  and ferns. She hears a bird. She comes to the
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  old beech tree. She climbs. She feels the breeze below
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  her hair. She watched the water and the waves. The
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  wide world comforts her. Sophie feels better now. She climbs
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  back down and heads for home. The house is warm
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  and smells good. Everyone is glad she's home. Everything's back
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  together again, and Sophie isn't angry anymore. Our next book
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  is on kindness, and it's called The Twelve Days of Kindness,
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  and it has and it was published by Random House
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  and has a copyright here of twenty twenty one. It
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  was written by Jenna Lettus. On our first day of kindness,
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  we spread joining comfort with a message of love for
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  someone brave. On the second day of kindness, we spread
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  joined comfort with two homemade gifts and a message of
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  love for someone brave. On the third day of kindness,
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  we spread joy and comfort with three high fives, two
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  homemade gifts, and a message of love for someone brave.
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  On the fourth day of kindness, we spend. We spread
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  joy and comfort with four tasty meals, three high fives,
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  two homemade gifts, and a message of love for someone brave.
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  On the fifth day of kindness, we spread joy and
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  comfort with five signs of hope, four tasty meals, three
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  half fives, two homemade gifts, and a message of love
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  for someone brave. On the sixth day of kindness, we
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  spread joy and comfort with six strangers smiling, five signs
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  of hope, four tasty meals, three half fives, two homemade gifts,
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  and a message of love for someone brave. On the
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  seventh day of kindness, we spread joy and comfort with
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  seven workers fixing six strangers smiling, five signs of hope,
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  four tasty meals, three high fives, two homemade gifts, and
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  a message of love for someone brave. On the eighth
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  Day of Kindness, we spread joy and comfort with eight gardeners, planting,
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  seven workers, fixing six strangers, smiling, five signs of hope,
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  four tasty meals, three high fives, two homemade gifts, and
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  a message of love for someone brave. On the ninth
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  day of Kindness, we spread joy and comfort with nine children, giving,
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  eight gardeners, planting, seven workers, fixing six strangers, smiling, five
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  signs of hope, four tasty meals, three high fives, two
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  homemade gifts, and a message of love for someone brave.
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  On the tenth day of Kindness, we spread joy and
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  comfort with ten bandmids playing, nine children, giving, eight gardeners, planting,
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  seven workers, fixing six strangers, smiling, five signs of hope,
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  four tasty meals, three high fives, two homemade gifts, and
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  a message of love for someone brave. On the eleventh
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  day of Kindness, we spread joined comfort with eleven helpers cleaning,
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  ten bandmates playing, nine children, giving, eight gardeners, planting, seven workers,
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  fixing six strangers, smiling, five signs of hope, four tasty meals,
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  three high fives, two homemade gifts, and a message of
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  love for someone brave. On the twelfth Day of Kindness,
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  we spread joined comfort with twelve neighbors sharing, eleven helper's cleaning,
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  ten band maid's plane, nine children giving, eight gardener's planting,
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  seven workers fixing, six strangers smiling, five signs of hope,
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  four tasty meals, three high fives, two homemade gifts, and
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  a message of love for someone brave. Be kind to
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  yourself and others. Our next stories will be on Valentin's.
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  The first one is called Ruby Valentine Saves the Day
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  and it was published by Carol Wrote of Books and
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  has a copy right year of twenty ten. It was
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  written by Lori B. Friedman, high above the hills of
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  hartleand just beyond the township sign with her feathered friend
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  named Lovebird lived Ruby Valentine. Now Ruby had a favorite day.
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  It came around once a year. As she settled in
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  to her new house, Valentine's Day was drawing near, so
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  she decided to throw a party without a moment's hesitation.
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  She and Lovebird sat right down and designed the invitation.
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  It's a party. On February fourteenth, also known as Valentine's Day.
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  Please join me in my house to eat and drink
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  and play. I'll wait your RSVP that says you'll be mine.
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  I can't wait to celebrate. Ruby mailed the invitations, then
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  hugged Lovebird with affection. She told her feathered friend. They
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  playing this party to perfection. She and Lovebird hung new curtains,
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  They scoured every nook. They decorated room by room. They
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  began to bake and cook. When they tied up the outside,
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  Lovebird clung to every feather. Ruby shivered with excitement or
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  possibly from bad weather. As the special day drew closer,
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  Ruby counted RSVPs. She never noticed the thermometer. It rid
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  thirty two degrees. Valentine's is tomorrow, and I want everything
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  to be just right. Ruby tied up gifts and goodie bags,
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  then kissed the Lovebird good night. But when Valentine arrived
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  and brought something unexpected. Though Ruby planned out most things,
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  there was one thing she neglected. A snowstorm, cried out Ruby.
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  She spent all morning on the phone. No one could
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  make it up the mountain. She'd be celebrating Valentines alone.
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  No perfect party, sobbed poor Ruby. Now it won't take place.
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  Lovebird wiped away the tears as they trickled down her face.
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  Then he looked outside the window and said, do not despair.
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  If no one can make it here, let's take the
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  party there. Ruby looked at Lovebird. This wasn't how I
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  planned the day. Lovebird shook his feathers. There is no
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  other way. So together, Ruby and Lovebird carefully packed their sled.
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  As they set out down the mountain, Ruby yelled full
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  steam ahead. But as they made their way to Heartland,
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  little did they know they left behind a trail of
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  party fair amissed the ice and snow, happy balance Tyne's day,
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  cried Ruby. As she went from door to door, she
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  gathered everyone in Heartland, from every school and house in store.
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  Time to celebrate. Smiled Ruby, will have a party in
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  town square. Then, horrified, she realized her slid was and bear.
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  Ruby run her hands together. I've made a big mistake.
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  We can't have a party without presents, cards or cake. Nonsense,
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  said the townspeople. Will have fun anyway. As long as
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  we're together, Let's enjoy the day. So they built a
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  giant sell me and they sang songs around a fire.
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  They sounded so good together they formed the Heartland Choir.
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  Everyone loved the holiday, but Ruby most of all. It
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  wasn't what she planned, but she truly had a ball.
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  In the end, everyone thanked her and said you saved
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  the day. Ruby smiled from ear to ear. She had
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  something she wanted to say. I've always loved Valentinees. You
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  all know that is true. Though I celebrate every year.
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  Today I learned something new. Planning the day out to
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  perfection is not what makes it great. If you're with
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  the ones you love, that's all you need to celebrate.
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  Book is called The Valentine Express and it was published
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  by Marshall Cavendish and has a copyright year of two
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  thousand and four and it was written by Nancy is
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  the Elizabeth Wallace. On February fourteenth, Missus Bloom asked, who
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  is our calendar? Help her today? Me, said Minna. It's
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  Valentine's Day. She taped a paper heart over the fourteen.
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  Let's talk about Valentine's Day, said missus Bloom. Would anyone
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  like to share? Valentine's Day is about love and friendship,
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  said Minna, and giving each other cards. Added tyrone and candy,
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  said Lindsey. My day gave my mom flowers, said Vanessa.
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  It's about saying and doing nice things, said Miguel, and
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  everybody being everybody's friend. Yes, it's a day to be
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  extra thoughtful and caring, agreed missus Bloom. But how did
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  celebrate Valentine's Day begin, she asked. Nobody really knows. It
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  may have started in ancient Rome, during a festival held
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  in February. Young picked young men picked names from an
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  urn in hopes of finding someone to marry. Might have
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  started with someone named Valentine, who lived a long, long ago.
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  There are several stories about Valentine. Our story tells us
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  how he was kind to children and that he sent
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  a note to a young friend and signed it from
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  your Valentine. Or may have started because in the old
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  days everyone thought the birds found their mates on February fourteenth.
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  It may have started for all those reasons. But one
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  thing we do know for sure. For hundreds of years,
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  sweethearts have been sending each other notes and cards, gifts
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  and flowers. Missus Bloom pointed to her heart. The heart
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  and feelings go together. We say things like you're my sweetheart,
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  my heart throbs for you. So what shape is the
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  symbol of love? The class knew the heart, they shouted,
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  and I am sure you know who this is, said
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  missus Bloom. The class shouted Cupid and oh no, not
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  more love stuff grown dave. Missus Bloom smiled. Long long
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  ago people also believed there really was a Cupid. He
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  shot a magic golden arrow into someone's heart, then that
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  person would fall in love. Today, Valentine's Day is celebrating
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  many countries around the world. Knock, knock, knock. Someone was
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  at the classroom door, Come on in, called missus Bloom.
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  Vanessa's mom brought in two plates of heart shaped cookies.
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  Mina's dad brought in a picture of pink lemon a punch,
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  and everyone gave everyone Valentine's After school, Minna and Pip
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  walked home. When they got to their streets, Wander was
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  hobbling towards them. Happy Valentine's Day, Missus Wander. They said,
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  oh is it today? Looks like your bags are filled
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  with Valentines. Mina answered, I got one from everybody in
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  my class. I got one from everybody in my class too,
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  said Pip. Did you get lost? Missus Wander? I used
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  to when I was young. She said, well, happy Valentine's Day.
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  She went into her house. Mina and Pip kept walking.
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  I wonder if grown ups get valentines, said Mina. What
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  if missus Wander didn't get any. I wonder if Mad
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  Damn Dody got one, or mister missus Checker or Big Stewart.
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  They said together, let's make Valentines for them, said Mina.
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  When they got home, they told Dad about their idea.
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  That's a very thoughtful thing to do, he said. While
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  you're creating Valentines, I'll be in the kitchen cooking something
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  special for supper and dessert. Don't peek, we won't. Mina
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  went and got her art box. It was filled with
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  colored paper, a glue stick and marker, scissors and string, wooden,
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  craft sticks, tape and pencil. Pip got his scissors. Can
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  you make a Valentine, Pip asked Minna. Hearts are hard
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  to cut, Minna, just do your best. Pip started cutting.
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  Mina did too. She cut out one big paper hart
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  and wrote on it. Then she cut it into puzzle pieces.
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  A puzzle for missus Wander, said Mina. She put all
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  the puzzle pieces into a white envelope. Oh La La,
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  said Mina. I have a great idea for Madam Dody.
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  She cut a large triangle. Then she cut two hearts
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  for wings and cut a blue butterfly body. She pasted
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  the butterfly onto the triangle. Pip held a triangle while
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  Mina tagged it to a skinny stick. Voila a flag
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  for Madam Dodyna. Mister and missus Checker loved playing games
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  instead of tic tac toe, said Minna, giggling. I won't
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  make them ticktac heart. Minna took a piece of pink
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  paper and a piece of purple paper. She folded the
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  pink paper in half and then in half again. She
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  cut out four pink hearts, then four more pink hearts.
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  She did the same thing with the purple paper. Next
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  she measures square and cut it. Then she took some
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  more purple and pink paper and cut out four skinny
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  strips to fit the square. Pip held hop Pip helped
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  hold the paper strip straight while Mina glued them in place.
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  Mister and missus Checker going to love playing this game,
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  said Mina. She put five pink carts and five purple
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  hearts and the square into a big envelope. Now, said Minna.
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  Time to deliver puzzle for missus wander flag from a
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  damn dody tick tack toe, I mean heart for mister
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  missus checker and for Big Stuart. Pip held something in
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  his hands behind his back. These are not good hearts, Mina,
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  can I see, Mina asked. Pip put some of the
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  hearts on the table and stuffed the rest into his pocket.
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  They are my practice hearts. Minna thought for a minute,
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  that's okay. Pip. You were busy helping me. Do you
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  have an idea Mina, he asked, I'm thinking. She said,
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  you have extra hearts. Mina said, Pip, we can make
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  We can make a mobile, she shouted. Minna got two
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  craft sticks and strings from her art box. Holding the
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  sticks to an x, she wound string around and around
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  the middle nixt She cut four pieces of string the
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  same length. She and Pip taped two purple hearts and
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  two pink hearts to the strings. Then Mina tie the
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  strings to the ends of the sticks. Now they had
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  a mobile for Big Stewart. We better carry this valentine,
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  said Minna, so it doesn't get all tangled. They loaded
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  Pip's wagon. We're the Valentine Express, said Minna, delivering Valentine's
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  to missus Wander, Madame Dody and mister Missus Checker and
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  Big Stewart. Have fun, said Dad, But hurry along, is
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  getting close to supper time. Happy Valentine's Day, missus, Wander,
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  a heart shaped puzzle for you. Oh, how clever, how nice?
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  Thank you Mina and Pip. At the next house, Pip
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  buzz the buzzer. Madame Dody opened the door and he
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  handed her the flag. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day
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  to you, may A. Miss Madame Dody waved her flag.
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  Merci Bookoo. Mina clanged the bell. At the third house,
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  Well look who's here, said mister Checker. Mina said. Valentine
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  Express delivering a game for you and a pretty mobile
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  for the missus, said mister Checker. Oh, Missus Checker, I
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  will hang in the kitchen. You're filling our home with
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  hearts and love. Thank you sweet neighbors, but started Pip.
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  Mina grabbed Pip's hand, But we better be going. At
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  the end of the Checker's path, the Valentine Express stopped
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  Minna's side. Missus checker loved our mobile. But how But
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  now we don't have a Valentine for Big Stuart. What
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  will we do? Mina asked Pip. I'm thinking, said Mina.
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  Do you have an idea, Mina, Pip asked, I'm still thinking.
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  She answered. Then she said, if only we have your
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  heart's Pip, They're in my pocket. Minna. He said, they
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  are good. She said, now we need to find a
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  big twig. Pip found one near a tree. He brought
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  it over to Mina. Mena gently pushed Pip's hearts onto
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  the small branches. Wow, said Pip. I like it. The
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  Valentine Express was making deliveries again. Ding dong dong. What
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  do we have here, asked Big Stuart. Come in, Minna
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  and Pip. What a creative Valentine. Big Stuart put his
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  Valentine in a base on the mantel. It's perfect, he said.
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  It's the art of friendship. The Mina and Pip in
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  the Valentine Express headed home, Happy Valentine stay. Our next
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  story is called Pierre in Love and it was published
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  by Orchard Books and has a copyright year of two
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  thousand and seven. The author of the book is Sarah pennypacker.
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  Pierre was in love. He had all the symptoms. He
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  stared into space for hours on end. He tossed and
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  turned all night in deep plump colored shadows had grown
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  beneath his eyes. He could not eat. His favorite chowder
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  tasted like paste, and Jesus he had once loved, lay
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  in his mouth like stones. His face melted into Lupy's smile.
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  Whenever he heard her name Catherine, or even a word
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  that sounded like bom aspirin for example, or bathroom, how
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  he longed to speak to her, to tell her how
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  he felt. Pierre sighed tragically. This was exactly what he
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  could not do. Catherine was exquisite, an angel of grace
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  and beauty, and he was only an ordinary fisherman. In
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  the morning stream, steaming out, he passed her studio. He
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  saw her teaching ballet to the children who lived in town.
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  He heard her voice, the floating like a silver ribbon
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  over the harbor, and his heart beat so louly it
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  drowned out the engine of his boat. In the evenings,
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  pulling back into port, he saw her painting at an easel.
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  How elegant she was, he marveled, How clean, how unlike himself.
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  Pierre sighed another tragic sign and began to pull in
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  his lines. The final haul of the day, some clams,
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  three lobsters, a single bad The blue scales reminded him
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  of how much he wanted to speak to Katherine. Of course,
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  everything reminded him of this. Sunrises, sunsets, empty potato chip bags.
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  And then there, tangled at the end of his line
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  was an unbroken shell, as perfect in its beauty as
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  Katherine herself. How would he give it to her? He must,
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  as a token of the love he could not express
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  in words. Perhaps she would paint it. How happy that
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  would make her. Pierre hoisted his anchor tonight it seemed
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  as light as a gold feather, and turned his boat
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  towards the harbor. In his cottage, Pierre washed the shell
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  with great care. Then he tied a ribbon around it.
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  It was ready after an extra long shower. Pierre combed
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  his hair back and styled his mustache with squid ink.
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  He polished his teeth. He tried on everything in his closet,
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  and finally selected a dashing red silk shirt, red he
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  knew was the color of love. Inspecting himself in the mirror,
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  then step back to get the full picture. Perfect. He
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  did not look a bit like the fisherman he had
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  been just an hour ago. He flew out the door
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  and down the road to Catherine's studio. His heart surged
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  as wild as Hurricane c as he raised his hand
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  to knock on her door. Then he froze. What had
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  been thinking? What would he say when she came to
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  the door. Pierre laid the shell on Catherine's doorstep and fled.
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  We will have to finish this story for next time,
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  So this concludes our story hour for today. Please join
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  us next time as we will read more stories, fables
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  and fairy tales. And thank you for listening, and please
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  stay tuned for the Harold Leader on Radio I