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5.10.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to realize tun Story Hour. As a
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  remindered the reading service intended for people who are blinded
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  tor have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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  print of material. Today we will be reading from various
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  books on mother's and or grandmother's. Your reader today is Diane.
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  Our first book is titled A Mother Is a House
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  and it was published by Gatco Press.
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  Speaker 2: It has a copyright.
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  Speaker 1: Eear of twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three and
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  the author is A Rory Petite. A mother's a house.
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  She's a car in a rush. She's a lullaby hush.
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  She's the top of a mountain, a kangaroo pouch, a
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  permanent fountain. A mother's a sho the moon before dawn.
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  A mother's gentle, the port in a storm. A mother's
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  a mirror. She's salty and sweet, your personal driver, your
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  roof in the street. A mother's an island, A soft melody.
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  Mother's changing as tall as a tree. A mother's performing
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  too noisy for me. A mother's a doctor. A bomb
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  when you're ill. She's a booey in the blue. She's
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  a green rolling hill. A mother's a story. A mother's
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  a wall, as pleased as a queen, or not happy
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  at all. A mother's patient, A mother's a beast. She
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  stands like a doorway, she cooks up a feast. A
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  mother's a picture piled up to the skies, a highway
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  for driving, a perfect disguise. A mother's with you wherever
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  you rome. A mother's a home. Our next book is
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  called one two Grandma Loves You, and it was published
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  by Abrams Appleseed and Imprint of Abrams has a copyright
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  ear of twenty twenty one and the author is Shelley Becker.
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  One two Grandma Loves You. Three four, Visit More five six,
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  Precious Picks seven eight, Mark the Date nine ten Together Again.
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  One two Grandma Loves You. Three four, Best Toy Store
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  five six, Measure and Mix seven eight, Stay up Late
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  nine ten, All Tucked In. One two Grandma loves You.
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  Three four, Blocking Door five six, A Few More Pigs
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  seven eight, Swinging Gate nine ten, Come Again. One two
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  Grandma Loves You three four, Phone more five six, Brand
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  new Pigs seven eight, Hang Them Straight nine ten, Plan Again.
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  One two Grandma Loves You. Our next book is titled
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  Nana and Me Special Poems Just for Us It was
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  published by Moonshower, an imprint of bushwn Peck Books, and
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  it has a copyright ear of twenty twenty three. The
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  author is Jane Yolen. Morning Sounds. The birds have their
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  own wakings, each kind of different tune. Mostly in the
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  early mornings. Some call out to the rising moon. Nana
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  knows all those songs. That's a robin, she says, a jay,
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  I think she knows me by my tunes too. I seen,
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  I laugh, I chatter away, go go walks me to school.
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  The door and down the street. Go the sounds of
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  our walking feet. Sometimes we talk or hum or sing.
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  Sometimes we're both reciting our favorite poem, the really One.
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  We laugh, call away when it is done. Breakfast with
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  Maya Bueila. We always have our breakfast according to the weather.
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  Whenever it is snowing, we eat oatmeal and hot chocolate together.
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  But in early spring, when we get up, French toast
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  and scrambled eggs builds tough bodies, of Bueila says, and
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  very strong fast legs.
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  Speaker 2: In summer, we eat on the deck.
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  Speaker 1: Big bows of milk soaked berries make us happy, Abuela says,
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  vanishes all our worries in the fall when leaves blow down.
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  We have corn muffins dripping with butter. There's crunchy cereal
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  from a box, and my favorite banana nutger Bananas come
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  from far, far away. I hear a Bueila say, like me,
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  she adds with the grin. She's perfect in every way.
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  Coloring with Bobby red is my favorite color, apple red,
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  sunset red. Bobby prefers blue sky, she says. In oceans.
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  She shows me how blue mixed with yellow, mix green
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  red with yellow becomes orange. I tray every color in
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  the box together, two at a time. It's a magic gift.
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  Nana is a magician. I think I always guess that,
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  but now I am sure. Nine nice big birthday numbers. Today.
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  My nine eye is sixty years old. I am five.
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  Can only count to twenty. She says that she is
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  forty more. I do not have enough fingers and toast
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  to count that high. Nine eye says that someday I
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  will Does she mean I will have forty more fingers
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  and toes or that I will be old enough to
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  count that high? It is a numbers puzzle. Me Mall's
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  good night poems. Me Mall tells me a new poem.
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  Every night, and then she adds an old poem one
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  her mem always said, good night, sleep tight, don't let
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  the bedbugs by. We don't have beg bugs here, Mema says.
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  And then we both nod wisely, but I say the
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  poem before I go to sleep, just in case.
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  Speaker 2: Late night.
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  Speaker 1: Christ the baby criest at night. Sometimes she is hungry,
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  sometimes she has wet her pants. Sometimes she is just lonely.
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  And sometimes I sneak into her room, sit in the dark,
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  hold her tiny hand and tell her not to be afraid.
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  Sometimes Grahams is there as well, and we have turns,
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  and we take turns reciting our favorite poems, singing our
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  favorite songs, but quietly so as not to wake Mommy
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  or Daddy. Gigi helps me get dressed. I choose what
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  I want to wear by myself. But some buttons, some
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  zippers are hard, shoelaces to take a deep gg says,
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  you'll get the hang of it, and soon I do. Surprise,
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  Mama is having a new baby. I hope it's a girl.
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  Grandma says, I love it either way. I'm not too sure,
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  but oh she is right. No, Nah plays piano. She
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  makes that old grand really ring with songs that everyone
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  can sing. But then she plays just on black keys,
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  so full of shivery unease, as if a ghost is
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  passing by, Which is why I want to try on
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  the train with Bebe. I love the click. I love
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  the clack of our train car upon the track, which
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  matches the click, and matches the clack of Bbe, which
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  is knitting. They sound like they have much to say.
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  Another turning says the track. Another row the needles say back.
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  Of course they speak, BB says to me. Mostly they
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  say poetry. I listen hard and hear a rhyme. It
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  makes a smile lying by line, this talk of clicking
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  and clocking. When I am sick and my parents are
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  at work. When I am sick and home in bed,
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  Sobo sits beside me a sneak peek, and she's still
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  there with soothing gensen tea. She wipes my brow, hosts
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  my hand, She sings a song or two. She tells
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  me stories, reads me poems until my sick is through,
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  and then she puts me in the tub to scrub
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  away the sweat. She tells me off until there's no
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  longer any wet. When Mom and Dad at last return,
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  I dance around the floor. They hug and kiss me
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  happily to see me well once more. They think that
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  rest and herbal tea were what took away the sick,
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  but it was poems and love and hugs that really
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  did the trick. Fifteen Yaya in the city to museum.
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  Yah y'all sat a lot, she says, looking at pictures.
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  It's better when you sit still. I like to get
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  up close, but the museum guard said no. We went
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  to a small zoo. Yah y'all says. Animals should run free,
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  but I worry about elephants on the city streets and
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  lions by the park swings. Yah y'all says, we shall
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  have to disagree. Hop scotch with Oma. I make squares
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  with chalk. Oma adds the numbers. I hop she scotches.
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  Nobody wins, nobody loses. We laughed so hard the squirrels
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  stop to watch. Oma knows the perfect game, crossing the
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  swift almy. We hold Haines crossing the street. A look
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  out for her, She looks out for me. It is
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  a fine arrangement. Laugh reading when I sit on Mimi's lap,
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  everything is fine. She reads the book to me that
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  sends real magic down my spine. The words and foe
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  the hero's boat, though just my age are wise. First
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  I hear their dreaming tales, and then read it with
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  my own eyes. NaN's old rocking chair. It knows a
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  lot of things about rocking, the creaks and shakes of
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  the rockers, the gulps of a child drinking a bottle
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  of milk, a father singing the baby to sleep, mother
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  up in the middle of the night, holding a crying child.
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  But the chair knows even more about listening. Years of
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  stories and poems read, read from the many books on
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  the shelves, memories of children, the warmth of a Nan
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  telling a long, slow, sleepy tale. Baba dreams. Baba tells
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  us her dreams every morning, swimming through the sky, walking
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  on the tops of waves. She says, that's not real.
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  I tell her, Baba laughs, if it was real, I'd
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  be too old to do it. My Baba is truly wise.
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  Easier to swim through skies and dreams than try it
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  in real life. Safer too. When Nana Jane sleeps, sometimes
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  she snores, sometimes she whistles. Sometimes she is so quiet.
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  A tiptoe interr room to make sure she is all right.
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  She always is. Names for Nana all over the world,
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  kids have different nicknames for their grandmothers. Here's some of
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  the names in this book. They're just a small handful
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  of possibilities. Abuela Spanish, bab By, Polish Biebi, Swaili, Bobby
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  Yiddish Gigi, Graham's Grandma, mem Mimi, Nana, American go go Zula,
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  al Me, Korean nay nae Meandrian Nan British Nna, Italian, Oma, German, Sobo,
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  Japanese Ya Ya.
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  Speaker 2: Green Week.
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  Speaker 1: Our next book is titled Grandma's Are Greater Than Great
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  and it was published by Green Willow Books, an imprint
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  of HarperCollins Publishers. It has a copyright year of twenty
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  twenty one and the author is James Solhom. You come
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  from grandma's and grand malls of grandmas of grandma's, going
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  back thousands of years. You needed them all for you
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  to be you. Many grandma's ago. One great great great
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  great great great great Grandma held a baby day and night,
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  hugging her back to health, and when the child was
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  well again, they both wore big red holly hawk flowers
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  for hats to celebrate, and the baby let out her
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  first laugh.
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  Speaker 2: The baby grip to be your.
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  Speaker 1: Great great great great great great great grandma. That grandma
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  was a pioneer and didn't even own a shoe. She
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  had heard of electricity, but didn't believe in it. She
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  had survived a war, so fevers didn't scare her. She
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  fanned mosquitos away from her baby, even in her sleep,
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  her hands sweeping time to her snores. That baby grew
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  up to be your great great great great great great Grandma.
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  That grandma dreamed of her baby all grown up in
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  fancy in a house with real glass windows. Maybe she'd
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  even be a teacher in her own one room school,
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  drawing alphabets in a sunbeam swirled with chalk dust. Then
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  the baby broke the family's only bowl and woke the
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  grandma from the dream. That baby griped to be your
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  great great great great great Grandma. That grandma knew how
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  to milk a goat and fix a wagon wheel. She
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  knew how to rope a calf, but she couldn't get
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  that misbehaving cloth to be a diaper. So she put
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  her newborn baby's bottom in a bonnet and showed her
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  the stars. That baby grew up to be your great
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  great great great grandma. That grandma covered her baby in
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  a sleigh, whooshing across a frozen lake. At the leg's
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  far end, an old woman so blossoms made of cloth
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  and took quilt. Nobody could fool her into talking to
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  a machine. She pulled that ringing telephone box off the
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  wall and donated it to the chickens. When her family arrived,
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  she sat snoring and swatting flies in her sleep. She
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  woke to find her new great great grandbaby in her arms.
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  The baby grip to be your great great great Grandma.
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  That grandma danced with her baby across the grass, laughing
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  and laughing under the town's first street lights. Lamps on
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  posts really could light a town. When the stars grew bright,
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  grandma and baby rode to the cousin's house for the
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  baby's first taste of gooseberry pie. That baby grip to
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  be your great great grandma. That grandma took her kids
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  fishing every day so all set of them could eat.
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  She led them through fields digging potatoes the harvesters had overlooked.
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  She stuffed a room from Florida ceiling with potatoes to
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  feed her family through the winter. They needed everyone, and
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  she still found time to have baby number eight, the
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  exact baby you needed for you to someday be you.
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  That baby grip to be your great grandma. That grandma
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  listened to the radio with her baby and trouble with
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  her baby among the tall trees, giving her baby bats
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  just to keep her in a world of love and
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  bubbles and no wars. After hundreds of bats, she turned
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  the radio on and hollered with joy at what she heard,
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  hugging her baby up out of the water and running
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  outside to find someone, anyone who could tell her if
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  it was true. The war was over. That baby grip
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  to be your grandma. That grandma swung her baby high
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  up on out of the crowd. Sitting on strong, slender shoulders.
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  The child could see everything now, from sun to storm
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  clouds to the band's loud guitars. It was like being
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  the world's tallest person. When the rain came, the concert ended,
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  but not they're dancing. This was the baby's first chance
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  ever to splash and rain and drink it straight from
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  the sky. That baby griped to be your mother. Your
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  mother was about to meet someone for the first time,
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  someone who never seem light or tasted air, someone who
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  didn't know how to walk, talk, or even breathe. Your
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  mother had so much to teach and share, and so
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  many hugs built up inside her, just waiting. Tiny hands
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  reached out to her from a nurse's arms.
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  Speaker 2: Click click, click, click, click, click.
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  Speaker 1: Flew at millions of miles an hour to far off phones,
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  igniting instant cheers. Someone had arrived.
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  Speaker 2: You and you, and who are you?
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  Speaker 1: Your holly hock hat and a grandma's snore, a gleeful squil,
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  scattering chalked us streams, a baby's bear bottom and a
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  bond of understars, A giggle and a gurgle blossoming from
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  a quilt, a gooseberry pucker and a candle lit kitchen,
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  a potato stuffed room and soapy shout of joy, a
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  dance in the rain, and a mother's first hug, one
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  hug among millions that took thousands of years to add
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  up to you. Our next book is titled A Grandma's Magic,
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  and it was published by Double Day Books for Young Readers.
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  An imprint of Random House Children's Books is a copyright
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  year of twenty twenty two and the author is Charlotte
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  off say. When a child is born, a grandma is
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  born too. Grandma's aren't like regular grown ups. Grandmas are
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  filled with magic. A Grandma's magic bursts through the door,
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  scoops you up, and sweeps you away to adventure. Together,
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  you conquer new heights and cover secret wonders and tame
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  why wild beasts. Grandma's magic has no schedule. It zooms,
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  it wanders. There's nowhere else it would rather be. Her
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  magic squirrels swirls inside your creations.
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  Speaker 2: Together.
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  Speaker 1: You've seen her apple crumble recipe, until the whole world
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  is gonen. Grandma's magic dances through your hands, digging, planting, waiting,
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  discovering new beginnings. Her magic loops and weaves, transforming the
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  simplest things into timeless treasure. And when a disaster strikes,
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  the fun has faded and it seems like too much
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  for Grandma to fix. You discover even her. Grandma's touches magic.
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  Her arms melt the hurt, her fingers many impossible, and
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  her kisses turn belly worries into belly giggles. But sometimes
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  she has to pick up her grandma things and head home,
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  and it can be hard to let her go. But
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  don't worry, because the most magic thing about Grandma is
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  that her magic never leaves. It stays with you always.
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  Our next book is called Who's Your Real Mom? And
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  it was published by Scribe by Scribble and the imprint
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  of Scribe Publications has a copyright year of twenty twenty
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  and the author is Bernadette Green.
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  Speaker 2: Elvie.
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  Speaker 1: Which one is your mom?
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  Speaker 2: Asked Nicholas.
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  Speaker 1: They're both my mom, But which one's your real mom?
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  I told you they're both my real mom, said Elvie.
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  Only the one who had you and her Tommy can
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  be your real mom, said Nicholas. Which one is that?
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  Speaker 2: Fine?
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  Speaker 1: Said Elvie. She's wearing jeans, Nicholas frown. They're both in jeans.
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  She's got dark hair. They both have dark hair. I
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  need a clue. She's got a scar above her eyebrowl
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  that looks like a moon, said Elvie. Nicholas squinted. I
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  can't see from here. Give me a good clue. She's
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  the one who can do a handstand on one finger.
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  No one can do that, scoff to Nicholas. My mom can.
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  Speaker 2: Also. She's the one who can pull a.
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  Speaker 1: Car with her teeth. Her teeth would break said Nicholas. No,
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  said Helvie, because actually they're reinforced with diamonds. She's the
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  one who's a pirate in disguise. Her pockets are full
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  of gold, and she has a pairkeet called Tony who's
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  stayed at home to look after our cat. She speaks
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  fluent gorilla. She regularly gets called to the zoo to
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  sort out gorilla disputes. I went to the zoo last week,
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  said Nicholas, and I didn't see either of your moms.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a real clue.
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  Speaker 1: My real mom crochet's hammocks for polar bears, can cartweel up,
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  a mountain teach who just fighters the art of the web,
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  writes in the secret language only wells can read, calls
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  Republican friends when I want to go flying, and can
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  clip a dragon's toenails while she's standing on her head
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  and eating a bowl of spaghetti. Alvie, just tell me
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  who your real mom is, Nicholas shouted. Okay, said Elvie.
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  She's the one who holds me when I'm scared. She's
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  the one who tucks me into bed, and she's the
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  one who kisses me good night. Don't both your moms
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  do that asked Nicholas exactly, said Elvie. Our next set
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  of stories are about tennis, and the first one is
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  called Tennis. Was supposed by the Child's World has copyright
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  Your of twenty seventeen and the author.
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  Speaker 2: Of the book is Kara L. Longlan.
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  Speaker 1: Time to play. The sun is warm, the air is calm.
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  It is a great day for tennis. You will need
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  balls and a racket. You also need a court to
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  play on. Tennis courts are hard and flat. A net
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  splits the court into two sides. Fast fact. Wearing good
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  tennis shoes is important. You must be able to run
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  and change directions quickly. Who can play? Two or four
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  people can play for singles, one person plays on each side.
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  In doubles, there are two players per team. Fast fact.
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  Tennis rackets were first used in the fifteen hundreds. Before that,
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  a tennis like game was played using the hands. Starting
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  the game, the server starts the game. She throws the
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  ball in the air. She hits it with her racket. Whoosh,
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  it whizzes across the court. Fast fact. The fastest serve
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  ever recorded happen in twenty twelve. The ball flew at
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  one hundred and sixty three point four miles per hour fall.
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  The ball might land in the wrong spot. If so,
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  it is a fault. The server tries again. Two faults
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  in a row make a double fault. Then the other
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  side wins the point. Fast fact. Failing to hit the
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  ball over the net is a fault. The same player
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  serves again. The ball sells over the net. Now the
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  other player must return the serve. Fast Fight tennis became
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  an Olympic sport in eighteen ninety six. It was removed
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  from the officialists in nineteen twenty four, and it was
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  brought back in nineteen eighty eight. Rallying players rally until
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  one player makes an error. Maybe he hits the ball
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  into the net. Maybe he can't hit it back at all.
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  He might hit the ball out of founds. Then the
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  other team scores a point fast fact. Tennis balls are
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  made of rubber and a fabric called felt points. Tennis
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  points have special names. Instead of zero, one, two, three,
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  and four, they are car called love fifteen, thirty, forty.
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  Speaker 2: End game.
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  Speaker 1: A player wins when they reach game, which is four points.
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  Fast fight. At pro Tennessee events, an umpire sits in
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  a tall chair. Judges on the court watch the ball
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  and players. The umpire and judges make sure everything is fair.
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  In tennis, there are games, sets and matches. The goal
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  is to win the match. Six games can win a set,
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  Two sets can win a match. Fast Fight, the longest
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  match ever recorded, happened in London in twenty ten. It
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  lasted eleven hours and five minutes. When the match is over,
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  the players go to the net they shake hands. It
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  was a good game. This concludes the children's story ire
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  for today. Please join us next time as we will
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