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8.31.25 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radio Eyes. Children's Story Hour as
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  a Reminder is a reading service intended for people who
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  are blind of other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  read printed material. Today we will be reading from various
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  books on school. Your reader today is Diane. We will
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  continue with the book Back to School, Mallory. It was
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  published by Darby Creek, a division of Learner Publishing Group.
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  It has a copyright year of two thousand and four
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  and the author is Laurie B. Freedman. Dead pauses and
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  looks at me. But she soon found out that building
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  big tall towers wasn't as easy as it looked. Every
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  time her tower started to get tall, it fell over.
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  But the little girl didn't stop building. For weeks, she
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  kept building towers. Every time tower fell over, she started
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  over again, until finally she built a big tall block
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  tower with all our blocks, just like the one our
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  older brother had built. Dad is quiet for a minute.
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  He picks up a handful of stones from the edge
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  of the wish pond and starts stacking them on top
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  of the other until they topple over. Building towers isn't easy,
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  but the little girl stuck with it until she did
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  it Dad looks at me. I knew ripen in there
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  that this little girl would always keep trying until she
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  accomplished what she set out to do. I throw a
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  rock in the water. Are you talking about me? Dad nods. Now,
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  my problems are bigger than building a tower out of blocks,
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  and you're bigger now than that little girl in the story.
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  Says Dad. I'm sure if you'll just give yourself and
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  everyone around you a chance, you'll find a way to
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  make things just the way you'd like them to be.
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  You'll you always have, and I know you always will.
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  Dad stands up and hands me the box of donuts.
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  I'm going home now. Why don't you take a few
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  minutes to think before the day gets started. After Dad leaves,
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  I take another donut out of the box. So much
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  has changed since we moved. Things aren't the way I
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  like them to be, especially things with Mom. I think
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  about the conversation I had with Mom and Dad last night.
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  Actually it wasn't a conversation because I didn't do any talking.
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  Mom did it. All. These were things I wanted to say,
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  like I wish we had considered someone's feelings besides her
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  own mine. But all I did was mumble I'm sorry,
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  and I am sorry sorry I was ever born. I
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  think Mom would be a whole lot happier if she
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  didn't have a daughter at the school where she teaches.
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  Then she could say to people, me, my only child Mike.
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  He's a bright, happy fifth grader. He plays baseball, he's
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  frozen meatballs, and he doesn't mind that I teach music
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  at his school. I know Mom was really upset last night.
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  Even though part of me is mad at Mom, all
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  of her is mad at me. And I don't like
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  it when she is mad at me. A tear off
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  a piece of doughnut and tossed into the water. I
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  wish I could do something so Mom wouldn't be mad anymore. Mallory,
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  Mom yells from down the street. Come on, Marianne and
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  her mom are leaving in a few minutes. I bet
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  Mom wanted to say, pack a bag and you can
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  go with them. I stand up and throw the rest
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  of my doughnut into the pond. I think about what
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  Dad said about finding a way to make things how
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  I want them to be. But I think no matter
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  what I do, Mom will still be mad at me.
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  I think the best for me to do thing for
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  me to do is look in the yellow pages this
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  afternoon and see if I can find a new mom
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  part of a plan. When I get to school on
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  Monday morning, I feel like everyone is thinking the same thing.
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  There goes the egg plan who didn't really break her leg.
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  I walked to my classroom and sit down on my desk.
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  Pamela is already in her seat. She smiles at me.
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  Looks like a good morning. My mom told me I
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  had to be nice to you even though you ruined
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  fall festival. Smile. Missus Daily taps Chester class. Please open
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  your science books to chapter five. I've flipped chapter five.
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  Bears Bears have it easy. They don't have to go
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  to school. They don't have to be in shows. I'd
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  like to be a bear, Joey, please read for us,
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  said Missus Daly. Joey reads. Bears can be found throughout
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  the world. They are large mammals with thick, coarse fur
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  and short tails. Bears walk flat on the soles of
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  their feet. Black bears, brown bears, and polar bears are
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  three of the most well known types of bears. If
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  I were a bear, I'm not sure which kind I
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  want to be. Sammy will you please continue, ask missus Daly.
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  Sammy takes over where Joey left off. Bears spend the
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  winter months of sleep or in active condition called hibernation.
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  They emerge from their case in the spring, in late
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  March or April. Now know what kind of beer I
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  want to be? The climate hibernates. I could go to
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  sleep now and wake up in March. By then everybody
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  would forget about the egg plant who didn't really break
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  her leg at Fall Festival, especially Mom. I wonder if
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  there are any caves and fern falls. While I'm busy
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  playing in my hibernation, Pamela passes me a note. It
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  says this concerns you on the outside. I'm not speaking
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  to Pamela, but when I get up, this concerns you note,
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  I want to read it. I unfold the paper. Mallory,
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  I have a plan. You are part of this plant.
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  Meet me under the monkey bars at recess. I'll explain.
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  Then I know you will like it. When the bell rings, hurry,
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  we have a lot to talk about. You have to
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  come your friend, Pamela. I can't imagine when Pamela has
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  in mind. I look at her, but she moves her
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  fingers across her lips, like she's zipping them shut. Pamela
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  and I have been what you'd call friends since she
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  stole my idea, but still part of me wants to
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  know what her plan is. Think about what Dad said
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  to me at the wishpond about giving other people a chance.
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  Maybe I should give Pamela a chance. When the recess
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  bell rings, I do e meanie miney mo. I squeezed
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  my palm and decide to go. Pamela's waiting under the
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  monkey bars when I get to the playground. When I
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  walk over the monkey bars, Pamela looks at me. She
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  looks nervous. I feel like I should say something, but
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  I haven't said anything to Pamela for a long time,
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  so I don't know what to say. Pamela faces me
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  and foats her hands in her lap. Mallory, your mom
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  seemed pretty upset with you last night, so I shrug.
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  I don't know why Pamela cares. If my mom is
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  mad at me, well, I think I got no way
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  to get her unmad. Huh, I raised my eyebrows. I'd
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  like to find a way to get mama un mad
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  at me. Why don't when we ask Missus Daily if
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  you can write the next Teacher of the month. Calm
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  about your mom. Pamela lean's towards me like she's telling
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  me a secret she doesn't want anyone else to hear.
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  Since your mom just did Fall Festival, kiss will think
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  it's interesting to learn more about her. You can say
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  how sorry you are about what happened, and when she
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  reason in the paper, she won't be mad anymore. I
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  consider Pamela's plan. Tomorrow is the last day to submit
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  articles for the next issue. Pamela continues, why don't we
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  talk to missus Daily before reesays is over. Even though
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  I'm still a little mad at Pamela, I think her
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  plan is a good one. That sounds great. I think
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  it's really nice that you want to help me. But
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  I guess I don't understand why you want to look
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  down at some grass growing under the corner of the
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  bunky bars. After all, I did ruin Fall Festival. Pamela
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  picks at a blade of grass. We all make mistakes.
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  I'm sorry I took your idea for the Daily News.
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  She says, I'd like to be friends. I didn't think
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  I would ever smile again, but I do. I like
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  to be friends too. You want to come over to
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  my house after school? Ask Pamela you can write your article.
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  I'll help you if you want. I nod my head. Sure,
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  maybe it's not such a good idea, says Pamela. Oh oh,
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  I hope we don't stop being friends before we get started.
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  How come, well, says Pamela. My sister Amanda will want
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  to do everything with us. She won't leave us alone
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  enough to write the article. She can be a real pain. Sometimes.
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  I've got a big brother and he's always a pain.
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  But I can't believe little sisters can be annoying. Pamela laughs.
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  Believe it. I can't believe you didn't know that. I
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  guess there are a lot of things about Pamela I
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  didn't know. Hey, I say, why don't I bring my
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  purple Neil polish to your house and Amanda can paint
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  her fingernails while we write the article. Great idea. Amanda
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  will love that. Pamela grabs my hand. Better go, I've
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  talked to missus Daly. Before we miss our chance. We
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  run back to the classroom. I can't help thinking about
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  what Dad said. Sometimes she just had to give people
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  a chance. I'm glad I gave one to Pamela, Mom
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  of the Month. It's out, I screamed. I clutched the
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  Daily News with one hand and cover my eyes with
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  the other. Pamela grabs the paper out of my hand.
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  Open your eyes, silly, I peak just a little. Don't
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  you know how hard it is to read your own work.
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  Pamela laughs, that's only when it's bad. She starts reading aloud.
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  Teacher of the Month Fernfall's Elementary music teacher Missus McDonald
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  by Mallory McDonald, her loving and only daughter. Missus McDonald's
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  a new face to many of the students at fern
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  Fall's Elementary, but she's not new to me. She's been
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  my mom for eight and three fourths a year of
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  my entire life. When she was a an O teacher
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  at home, she taught one student at a time. But
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  now she's the music teacher at fern Falls Elementary, she
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  teaches lots of students. I was really worried when I
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  found out she was going to be the music teacher
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  at my school. I thought she wouldn't have time to
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  be a mom and a teacher. I thought I was
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  losing a mom, But I realized what I gained was
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  a great music teacher. She's the world's best music teacher
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  for lots of reasons. She doesn't laugh at kids who've
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  seen off key. She doesn't ask questions about composers who've
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  died a gazillion years ago. But best of all, Missus
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  McDonald loves all kids and vegetables equally, even rotten ones
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  who are very very very sorry for any bad behavior,
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  and promised to be a good from now on. As
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  a music teacher and a mom, Missus McDonald gets an
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  A plus. Missus McDonald's not only the teacher of the month,
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  she's the mom of the month too. Pamela folds the
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  paper closed. It's great, she says, your mom will love it.
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  I crossed my I hope Pamela is right, even though
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  she says she's not. I can tell Mom is still
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  mad at me. On Saturday, she made me clean out
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  my drawers. On Sunday, she didn't make peanut butter marshmallow pancakes.
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  She always makes them for me on Sundays, and this
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  Sunday I got plain old pancakes. And ever since Fall Festival,
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  she's been calling me by my full name, Malorie Louise MacDonald.
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  The only time she calls me by my full name
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  is when she's mad. I hope Mom likes the article,
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  and I hope she'll really forgive me for running fall Festival.
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  I don't know how I'm going to be able to
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  wait until music class to see if Mom liked my article.
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  Missus Daily taps Chester on the head. Class, take your
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  seats and open your Social Studies books to page eighty seven.
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  Open book to a picture of Christopher Columbus. It took
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  Christopher Columbus over two months to seil across the ocean
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  with the Nina the pent in the Santa Maria to
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  get to the New World, said Missus Daly. It took
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  years to put his plane into place and see it
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  through completion. So you can see, said Missus Daily. Some
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  plans take a very long time to work. I hope
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  my plan works faster than Christopher Columbuses did. After Social Studies,
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  Missus Daily says, to take out our science books. Someone
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  knocks on the door, Class, please start reading. On page
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  sixty one, she walks outside and shuts the door behind her.
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  I start reading, but Missus Daly cracks the door open. Malorie,
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  may I see you ooh oh, whoever's talking to Missus
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  Daily must have been talking about me. What if Mom's
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  not the only one who's mad about fall Festiful? What
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  if it's the principal and I'm in big trouble. I
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  walk outside slowly, but when I get outside, I'm surprised.
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  It's not the principal. It's my mom. Mallory, your mother
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  would like to have a word with you. Missus Dayly
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  winks at Mom and smiles at me. Your article was excellent,
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  she says. Missus Daily goes back into the classroom. I
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  wish I could follow her inside. I'm not sure what
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  mama is doing here. There's a copy of the Daily
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  News in her hand. I can't tell if she's happy
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  or mad. I crossed my toes. Did you like the article?
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  Mom puts her arm around me. What do you say?
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  We discussed it over lunch? How about mc How does
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  McDonald's sound. Mama's taking me out for lunch. I get
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  to go to McDonald's. She knows all McDonald's love McDonald's.
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  Mama is quite in the car when we sit down
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  and wrap my cheeseburger and take a bite, But Mom
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  doesn't touch her food. Mallory. What you did at the
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  Fall Festival was wrong, and I think you know that.
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  I nod my head. I don't think you'll do anything
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  like that again. I nod my head again. And I
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  know you're sorry that you were in a special night
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  for a lot of people. I keep nodding. I hope
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  I don't throw up my cheeseburger from all this nodding.
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  Mom spreads the daily news on the table and turns
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  to the page with my article on it. But this
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  is wonderful, she smiles at me. Whew, I think it's
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  safe to stop nodding. Mom. I'm sorry I pretend to
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  break my leg. I wish I hadn't run the show.
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  Mom takes a sip of her shake. Is there anything
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  else she would like to say? Actually, there is. There's
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  a lot of things I like to say. I take
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  a deep breath. I didn't want you to be the
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  music teacher at my school. I didn't want you to
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  pick the thing you picked for Fall Festival, and I
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  didn't want Marian to come see the show. I tried
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  to tell you, but you didn't listen to anything I
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  had to say. I feel like I've said enough, but
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  for some reason, I keep going. It's hard to share
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  your mom with the whole school, especially when you're used
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  to having her yourself. It's not that being an eggplant
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  was so bad, but I felt like you were spending
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  so much time planning fall festival you barely had time
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  to be my mom. You even gave us frozen meatballs.
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  You never gave us frozen meatballs before you were a teacher.
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  Mom is quiet ferment, Mallori. Just because I gave you
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  frozen meatballs doesn't mean I love you less, and I'll
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  try to listen to what you have to say from
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  now on. But sometimes things happen that you might not like.
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  When they do, you might find they're not at all
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  that bad if you just give them a chance. I
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  take a sip of my shake. I think about Pamela.
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  I gave her a chance. I'm glad I did. Maybe
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  Mom is right. I'll try I tell her. Mom looks
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  at me in a happy way, like she just ate
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  an extra salty French fry. Mallory. I'm proud of you.
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  You did a good job telling me how you feel,
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  and you wrote a wonderful article. Sometimes we all have
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  a tough time saying what's on our minds, and you
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  express yourself beautifully. Thinking about what Mom said makes me
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  feel happy. I wonder if this is how Vincent and
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  vain Go felt when he painted. Expressionism is starting to
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  make sense to me, Mom, There's something else I want
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  to say. Mom puts down her milkshake and looks at me,
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  like what I have to say is important to her.
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  What's that, she asks? I'm getting used to fern falls elementary.
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  I even think there are some fun parts to having
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  you teach me at the same school. Oh yeah, Mom
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  raises an eyebrow. Which parts do you think are fun?
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  I take a big bite of my cheeseburger. The eating
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  lunch at McDonald's part, I lean forward and whisper so
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  no one but Mom can hear me. It's a lot
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  more fun than eating at that stinky cafeteria. Mom looks
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  around the restaurant and leans forward. I think the cafeteria
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  is stinky, too. But I'll tell you a secret if
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  you promise not to tell a nod. I keep a
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  secret stash if candy bars at my desk. Sometimes I
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  just need to eat something sweet to get that cafeteria
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  smell out of my nose. You're welcome stop by the
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  room if you think a little bit of canny might
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  help you too. Going to lunch a McDonald's access to
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  a secret Caniye stash. Having Mom as a teacher might
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  be even better than I thought It would be. Sounds
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  like a plan. I tell Mom. We smile and dip
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  our French fries in the ketchup cup at the same time.
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  Happy Halloween. Someone sits down on my bed and rubs
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  my bike. Guess who says the voice? Even though I'm
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  covered with covers, I don't have to guess. I know
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  it's Mom. She tickles my bike. Rise and shine, sleepyhead,
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  It's Halloween. Then she whispers in my ear, I have
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  a Halloween surprise for you. Canney corn pancakes your favorite.
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  I sit up. I have a surprise for you too.
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  I'm not going to be a witch this year. Mom
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  is quiet for a minute, But you're always a witch
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  on Halloween. If you're not going to be a witch,
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  what are you going to be? I smile at Mom.
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  That's another surprise. When I finish my pancakes, I ask
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  Mom if I can borrow the aluminum foil. I take
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  it into my room and close the door. I get
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  out paint, some poster board, and string and scissors and glue.
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  Joey and Pamela are coming over and we're making Halloween costumes.
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  After I set everything up, I go outside to wait
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  for my friends. When they arrive, we go into my room.
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  Mix follows us. What's going on in here? You'll find
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  out soon enough. I lock my door. So what do
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  we do? As Joey, I've never made my own costume.
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  Pamela looks through all the art supplies on the floor
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  of my room. Actually, neither of I. She smiles at me, Malory,
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  you have to tell us where to start. I smile
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  at both of them. I know exactly where to start.
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  We spend the morning cutting, pasting, and coloring. When Joey
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  and Pamela and I finish gluing the last pieces on
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  our costumes, we punch hose in the tops, tight strings
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  through the hose and slip them over our heads. I
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  spin around and so they can see me. What do
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  you think I think no one else in fern Foss
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  will be dressed like us, says Joey. I think we're ready,
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  says Pamela. We all nod and march into the kitchen
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  to model our costumes for Mom and Mix. Mom gasps
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  when she sees us. Even Mix look like he's impressed.
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  What do you think, I ask? Mom grins, three musketeers,
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  Very clever. Mix walks around in a circle like he's
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  a costume inspector. Not bad, he says to Joey and Pamela.
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  He stops in front of me. Pretty good costume. Just
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  try not to break a leg while you're wearing it.
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  Everybody laughs, even Mom. She takes her camera out of
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  the drawer. Get together, guys, put our arms around each other.
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  Mom says, say happy Halloween and snaps our picture. See
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  you tonight. I tell Joey and Pamela they aren't going
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  home and coming back to my house tonight to trick
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  or treat six o'clock, six o'clock sharp, and don't be late.
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  We have a lot of houses to go to after
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  they leave. Mom hands me an envelope. This came for
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  you this morning. It's from me. She wrote Happy Halloween
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  on the outside in big like and orange letters. Took
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  her letter to my room and I opened it. Dear Mallory,
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  Happy Halloween. What are you gonna be for Halloween this year?
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  Even though we won't be together. I'm gonna be a
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  witch just like always. But Halloween won't be the same
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  this year, not without you or cheeseburger. I won't have
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  anybody to go on fake black fingernails with. I won't
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  have anybody to trade candy with. I won't even have
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  a cat to go with my costume. Nobody will able
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  to say which which are you? Here's a Halloween poem
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  for you. Boo who boo who boo who? Halloween won't
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  be the same without you. Hugs, hugs, hugs, kisses, kisses, kisses. Marianne.
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  I reread Marianne's letter. Then I take out my Halloween
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  scrapbook and pace Marianne's letter in it. I leave enough
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  room on a page to put in the picture Mom
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  took of Joy, Pamela and me. This Halloween will be
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  different from my mother Halloweens. I used to go trick
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  or treating with Marianne. Then we go back to her
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  house and put our candy in a big bow and
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  share it until it was all gone. Some years we
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  got enough candy last until Christmas. This Halloween, I'm trick
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  or treating with Joey and Pamela and Winnie and mix
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  are coming too. Mix has never trick or treated with me,
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  but when he heard that Winnie was coming, he decided
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  to come along. When we finished, we're meeting at the
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  Wish Pond for a party. Joey says, Halloween at the
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  Wishpond is a Wish Pond Road tradition. I think about
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  the Wish Pond. I've spent a lot of time there lately,
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  making a lot of wishes, and I've noticed something. Sometimes
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  my wishes come true, sometimes they don't, and sometimes they
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  take a while of work. I guess what Mom says
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  is true. You have to give things a chance, even wishes.
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  I pull a sheet of paper out of my desk drawer.
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  Dear Marianne, Happy Halloween to you too. I know you
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  will be a very cute witch cheeseburger and I will
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  both miss being part of the costume. You are right
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  about one thing. Halloween won't be the same this year,
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  not without you. Believe it or not, I'm not going
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  to be a witch this year. At first, I thought
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  I would be a witch because I'm always a witch
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  with you, But I decided to try something different, so
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  you'll never guess what I'm going to be A three musketeer,
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  not the sword fighter kind, the candy bar kind. Joey,
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  Pamela and I are going trigger treating together as the
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  three Musketeers. It was my idea. When I told Joey
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  about it, he said he wanted to go as a
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  soccer player. So I told Joey that something was bugging me.
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  I told him that I felt like he only wanted
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  to be my friend some of the time, not all
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  the time. Even told him that Mix said he was
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  just my street friend. Max says a street friend is
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  someone who lives on your street and only wants to
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  be friends at home. Joey said, silly that. Mike said
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  that most of the stuff stuff Mike says is silly.
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  Joey said friends can be different and still be friends.
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  Then he said the more he thought about the candy
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  bar idea, the more he liked it, and to count
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  him in. When I told Pamela that idea, she said
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  she loved it. She even told missus Daily about it.
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  She made her promise not to tell anyone, and Pamela
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  told her it was my idea. Missus Daily told me
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  she thought it was a delightful, sweet idea. That's all
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  for now. I have to go help Dad hang Halloween
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  decorations in our yard. Have fun tonight, eat lots of candy.
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  I'm going to even though I know what Mom is
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  going to say, don't eat too many sweets. You don't
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  want to get a tummy egg before you go to bed.
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  But I know exactly what I'm going to tell her.
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  I'm going to tell her not to worry because I
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  like sweet dings. Ha ha ha haaa. Get the joke. Sweets,
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  sweet endings, Happy happy, Happy Halloween, extra extra extra big
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  huge hugs and kisses. Mallory class pictures. Oh yay, I
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  almost forgot. Next week we're taking class pictures and I
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  can't decide what to wear. Mary and I used to
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  always help each other pick out just the right outfits,
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  but since she's not here this year, I asked a
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  few other people. Dad said I should ask Mom. He
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  said he's no good in the picking clothes department. Mom said,
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  as long as I smile and say cheese, I'll be fine.
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  But Mom knows I always say cheeseburger when I take
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  a picture. Mike said I should wear a paper bag
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  over my head. Joey said he had no idea what
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  I should wear. When he said it wouldn't matter, and
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  Pamela said we should ask missus Day. None of these
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  people were any help at all, but maybe you can be.
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  What do you think I should wear? Me and bell
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  bottoms and a hippie top, Me and a mini skirt
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  and a turtleneck, Me and jeans and a poncho, Me
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  and boots and a letter address. It's so hard to
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  picture just the right outfit for a class picture. Thanks
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  so so much for your help. This concludes our children's
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  story I are for today. Please join us next time
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  as we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales.
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  Thank you for listening, and please stay tuned for the
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  Lex and Here Leader on Radio I