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BEST Bedtime Story in The World 😴 Gentle_ Cozy _ Safe for Kids 💤🌙 Calming Stories to Help Kids Sleep · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Tonight's bedtime story is the best bedtime Story in the
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  Speaker 1: World by Luke Prendergast. Let's get cozy and drift off together.
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  Speaker 1: we do, which will help us grow. Let's get ourselves cozy,
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  Speaker 1: snuggle down, and I'll begin. Milo and Milly are so
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  Speaker 1: busy building imagineing castles in the air that they don't
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  Speaker 1: hear the knock on the door and the creek as
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  Speaker 1: its wings open, or notice their mother's head poke around
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  Speaker 1: the frame and the castle, Milo declares, has hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: towering turrets. Oh yes, says Milly, I can see it now,
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  Speaker 1: and she can. The castle or hovers in the air
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  Speaker 1: between them with its thousands of winding, stony turrets, all
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  Speaker 1: culminating in pointed roofs, as though it is really there
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  Speaker 1: and not just in their imaginations. Millie lunges for a
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  Speaker 1: fluffy tiger that lies at the tip top of their
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  Speaker 1: mound of plushy soft toys. And they're a tigers, she announces,
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  Speaker 1: holding the toy in the air. There are Milo agrees,
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  Speaker 1: imagining tigers stalking around the castle grounds. He can see
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  Speaker 1: them now pacing alongside the high walls. And lions too,
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  Speaker 1: Milly adds. Yes, says Milo, and lions, and also a flamingo.
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  Speaker 2: Milly blinks.
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  Speaker 1: She frowns at him, quizzically. A flamingo, she asks, A
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  Speaker 1: flamingo in the castle. Yes, says Milo, nodding his head.
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  Speaker 1: The flamingo was migrating across the world from the lake
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  Speaker 1: where she lives in Kenya, and she went through a
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  Speaker 1: magical hole in the sky and ended up in another
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  Speaker 1: world where she found the castle and made friends, weared
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  Speaker 1: the lions and tigers. So now she lives in the moat. Oh, right,
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  Speaker 1: says Milly, giving a nod. Yes, that makes sense. And
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  Speaker 1: now she looks at the imaginary castle shimmering in the
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  Speaker 1: air and sees that there is indeed a bright pink
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  Speaker 1: flamingo standing on one leg in the castle's crystal blue moat.
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  Speaker 1: The flamingo spots her looking, raises a thickly feathered wing
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  Speaker 1: and waves. Milly waves back. Oh, she thinks to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't the imagination the most wonderful thing imaginable? Right? Says
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  Speaker 1: their mom, Come on you tube, time for bed, And
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  Speaker 1: just like that, the spell is broken. The castle floating
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  Speaker 1: in the air gives a little wobble and disappears. The
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  Speaker 1: room goes back to normal. It's just their plain old bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: with the desk and the bunk bed and the lava
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  Speaker 1: lamp glooping bright red bubbles. No, mom, Milo says, we're
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  Speaker 1: not ready for bed, but it's already past your bedtime.
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  Speaker 1: Their mum insists, but we've got too much energy. Milly says,
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  Speaker 1: we're full of beans and our imaginations are roaring like lions.
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  Speaker 1: We were building castles in the air. Please can we
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  Speaker 1: carry on playing for a little while, please? Then Mum
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  Speaker 1: gives Milly a smile and shakes her head. No, she says,
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  Speaker 1: school in the morning. Enough playing. Come on, But we're
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  Speaker 1: not sleepy. Milly says, will you at least agree to
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  Speaker 1: tell us a bedtime story, Milo begs. Their mom looks
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  Speaker 1: at them one after the other. On her face is
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  Speaker 1: the expression she wears when she's thinking something through very carefully.
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  Speaker 1: Milo and Milly watch silently, full of anticipation. Okay, their
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  Speaker 1: mom says, at last, I will tell you a bedtime
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  Speaker 1: story as long as you're in bed in five seconds flat.
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  Speaker 1: Deal deal. Milo and Milly sing in unison. Their mom
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  Speaker 1: starts the countdown five, four, three, but she can't even
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  Speaker 1: get to two before the two of them are already
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  Speaker 1: in bed, Milly in the top bunk, Milo down below,
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  Speaker 1: with their covers pulled up to their chins and big
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  Speaker 1: grins on their faces. Wow, though, Mom says, you guys
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  Speaker 1: must really want a story. She switches off the main
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  Speaker 1: light so that it's only the lava lamp's red light
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  Speaker 1: and a golden glow of the bedside lamp illuminating the bedroom.
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  Speaker 1: She takes a seat at the end of the mattress
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  Speaker 1: and tucks a cushion behind her back, settling down and
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  Speaker 1: getting comfy now, she says, I think I've got a
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  Speaker 1: pretty special story for you tonight. I think it might
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  Speaker 1: just be the best bedtime story ever. Seriously, Milo asks,
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  Speaker 1: a little frown of skepticism appearing on his face. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: his mum replies, it's a story from my own childhood,
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  Speaker 1: from when I was just a little girl, and I've
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  Speaker 1: never told it to anyone before because I've never thought
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  Speaker 1: that anyone would believe me. But I'm telling it to
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  Speaker 1: you now because I think the two of you will,
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  Speaker 1: because you've both got such big imaginations that you'll be
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  Speaker 1: able to see that even though it's pretty fantastical, every
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  Speaker 1: word of the story is true. So settle down and
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  Speaker 1: get comfy, okay, Milo and Milly nod. They are excited now.
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  Speaker 1: They can't wait to hear the story, and so their
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  Speaker 1: mum lowers her voice to the gentle, irresistible whisper she
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  Speaker 1: uses when storytelling, and begins. Once upon a time, she says,
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  Speaker 1: When I was a little girl, I lived in a
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  Speaker 1: little village called Lower Starry Skies. It was a very cozy,
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  Speaker 1: a very pretty village, with chocolate box cottages and winding
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  Speaker 1: lanes and golden fields of wheat and woodlands. I love
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  Speaker 1: to play in the garden, or or go with my
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  Speaker 1: mom down to the babbling brook and watch the silver
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  Speaker 1: fish flash their bellies at the moon. Lower Starry Skies
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  Speaker 1: might have looked like an ordinary sleepy village, but the
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  Speaker 1: very air seemed to tingle with the possibility of magic.
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  Speaker 1: From time to time, out of the corner of my eye,
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  Speaker 1: I would think I'd seen some wondrous being, a fairy,
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  Speaker 1: or a pixie, or a waddling gnome. But when I'd
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  Speaker 1: look straight at it, it wouldn't be there. Still, it
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  Speaker 1: made me feel as though something enchanted was always just
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  Speaker 1: around the corner waiting for me. One evening, when I
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  Speaker 1: was around your age, Oh, I must have been about
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  Speaker 1: six or seven. I was playing in the field beside
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  Speaker 1: our house, right on the edge of the village, when
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  Speaker 1: I saw a most peculiar sight across the field. I
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  Speaker 1: spotted a golden retree and a squirrel walking together and talking. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, a dog and a squirrel walking and talking. Well,
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  Speaker 1: as you can imagine, I was rather surprised. You don't
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  Speaker 1: expect to see a dog and a squirrel walking along
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  Speaker 1: merrily together. He'd be more likely to see a dog
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  Speaker 1: chasing a squirrel across the park and the squirrel clambering
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  Speaker 1: niftily up the trunk of a tree. And if you
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  Speaker 1: did see a dog and a squirrel walking together, he
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  Speaker 1: had not expect to hear them talking and to understand
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  Speaker 1: every word. But I did. I understood everything they were
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  Speaker 1: saying as though it had been two humans who had
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  Speaker 1: their heads tipped together in conversation. They were talking about
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  Speaker 1: a place called Sleepy Forest, somewhere I'd never heard of before,
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  Speaker 1: and the squirrel was telling the golden retriever that on
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  Speaker 1: that very evening, in this sleepy forest place, the Koala
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  Speaker 1: moon was due to sing a very special lullaby. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea what a koala moon was, but
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  Speaker 1: I can vividly remember the glimmer of excitement in the
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  Speaker 1: dog's eyes when the squirrel told him that by that
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  Speaker 1: time they were getting close to me. So I crouched
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  Speaker 1: down in the long grass so that I wouldn't be spotted.
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  Speaker 1: I watched as they passed me by and began to
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  Speaker 1: make their way along the side of a thick green
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  Speaker 1: hedge running up the edge of the field, And for
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  Speaker 1: a few seconds I thought I would just let them disappear.
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  Speaker 1: But then my curiosity got the better of me. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hear more of what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to learn more about sleepy forest and the
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  Speaker 1: mysterious Koala moon. So I crept quietly through the grass
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  Speaker 1: tiptoe so as not to unwittingly crunch a leaf or
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  Speaker 1: snap a twig. I didn't want them to know I
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  Speaker 1: was following them. I could hear small fragments of their conversation,
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  Speaker 1: just loose words carried on the breeze, but in order
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  Speaker 1: to hear properly. I needed to get closer to them.
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  Speaker 1: I picked up my pace, when all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: the golden Retriever and the fluffy silver squirrel turned and
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  Speaker 1: disappeared into the hedge. When I got to where they
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  Speaker 1: had vanished, I discovered that in the hedge there was
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  Speaker 1: a hole, a perfectly circular hole. And then when I
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  Speaker 1: peered through the hole, I saw that the hedge went
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  Speaker 1: back much further than would have ever seemed possible, back
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  Speaker 1: so far that all I could see at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the tunnel was a disk of soft light. And
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  Speaker 1: did I follow them through the tunnel? Wow? What do
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  Speaker 1: you think? Of course I did. I couldn't resist. I
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  Speaker 1: crouched down and crawled through the leaves of the hedge,
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  Speaker 1: brushing against my hands and my knees and my long
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  Speaker 1: strands of hair. I crawled all the way through, feeling
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  Speaker 1: the air all around me tingling with that familiar magic.
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  Speaker 1: And when I got out the other side, I stood
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  Speaker 1: up to discover that I was in a dense pine forest,
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  Speaker 1: and that I wasn't alone. The golden retriever and the
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  Speaker 1: squirrel were there too. They'd been waiting for me. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: said the squirrel, who I only noticed just then was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a sparkly golden waistcoat. We were wondering whether you'd
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  Speaker 1: pluck up the courage to follow us through the hedge.
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  Speaker 1: I never doubted you, said the Golden Retriever, giving me
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  Speaker 1: a big grin. But Sydney here wasn't so sure. Sydney
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  Speaker 1: the squirrel laughed and gave a shrug. I guess I'm
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  Speaker 1: more of a skeptic than my friend Hector here, he
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  Speaker 1: said the Golden Retriever. Hector told me that they had
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  Speaker 1: noticed me watching them back in the field in Lower
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  Speaker 1: Starry Skies, but had decided not to let on that
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  Speaker 1: they knew. It wasn't often. He said, that they encountered
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  Speaker 1: a human who could hear them speak. It suggested I
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  Speaker 1: had a particularly strong imagination, and I wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: just how strong my imagination was. As it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: Sydney said, You've got a beautiful imagination, a big and
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  Speaker 1: bright enough imagination that it brought you through the tunnel
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  Speaker 1: in the hedge and into the Koala Kingdom. The Koala Kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: I whispered, what's that? Who was? Hector said, the Koala Kingdom?
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  Speaker 1: Who's this very place? We find ourselves in now, the
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  Speaker 1: place just over the hedge from Lower Starry Skies. This
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  Speaker 1: part here is called sleepy forest. But there are mountains
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  Speaker 1: and rivers and jungles in the kingdom too, and all
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  Speaker 1: of them are watched over by the loving Koala moon,
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  Speaker 1: the Koala moon, I repeated. I heard you saying that
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  Speaker 1: the Koala moon would sing a lullaby, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the Koala moon is Sydney. He gave me
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  Speaker 1: a friendly smile. How about instead of telling about it,
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  Speaker 1: we show you. How would you like to come with
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  Speaker 1: us on an adventure through sleepy Forest to hear the
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  Speaker 1: Koala moon sing? I didn't have to think long before
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  Speaker 1: I gave him an answer. I'd love to, I said,
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  Speaker 1: And so we set off through the trees. Being only
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  Speaker 1: six or seven, I wasn't very tall back then, and
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  Speaker 1: next to me, Hector seemed more like a big, friendly
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  Speaker 1: lion than a golden retriever, his great paws padding crisply
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  Speaker 1: along the autumn forest floor. Sydney glided through the trees
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  Speaker 1: with the agility of a gentle breeze, occasionally running up
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  Speaker 1: a tree trunk to pluck a ripe fruit or plump
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  Speaker 1: nut from a bough which he would gnaw on himself
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  Speaker 1: or hand to work one of us to eat. Sleepy
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  Speaker 1: forest was hushed and peaceful, the lilac twilight light filtering
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  Speaker 1: between the tall pine trees. Soon I began to notice
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  Speaker 1: little homes populated by other forest creatures. A badger in
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  Speaker 1: a pink apron stepped out of a small bakery to
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  Speaker 1: wave at us. A chameleon in every color of the
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  Speaker 1: rainbow swam out from a grotto and said, watch a Hector.
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  Speaker 1: The trees grew denser and denser, as though bit by
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  Speaker 1: bit we were approaching the heart of the forest. Then
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  Speaker 1: we stepped out into a glade, golden leaves drifting silently
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  Speaker 1: from the treetops. In the middle of the glade there
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  Speaker 1: stood a cozy, wooden cabin, and in front of that
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  Speaker 1: cabin there was a young koala wearing a sunset orange backpack.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Hector, he said, And Hello Sidney. I wondered if
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  Speaker 1: you guys were ever going to turn up. Sorry, Coco,
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  Speaker 1: Hector said to the koala. We got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: delayed because we found ourselves a new friend in lower
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  Speaker 1: Starry Skies. Hector introduced me to Coco, who gave me
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  Speaker 1: a big hug and told me how glad he was
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  Speaker 1: to meet me. The more the merrier where adventures concerned.
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  Speaker 1: He said, now, come on, we need to get down
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  Speaker 1: to Sleepy River. It's dusk and the Koala Moon's about
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  Speaker 1: to rise. We don't want to miss her lullaby. And
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  Speaker 1: so the four of us, me and Hector and Sydney
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  Speaker 1: and our new friend Cocoa, made our way through the
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  Speaker 1: forest paths. The creatures were making their way towards the
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  Speaker 1: river too, a raccoon in a leather jacket, a bushy
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  Speaker 1: tailed red squirrel carrying pompoms, even a yetti carrying a
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  Speaker 1: bowl of spaghetti. As we walked, I noticed something funny.
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  Speaker 1: There was a little patch sewn onto Coco's orange backpack
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  Speaker 1: in the shape of a moon, and that moon was
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  Speaker 1: beginning to glow, a beautiful golden color, the color of
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  Speaker 1: pale runny honey. I pointed to the glowing moon patch
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  Speaker 1: and asked Coco what it was. Ah, said Coco, with
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  Speaker 1: a smile, What that moon patch is and how it
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  Speaker 1: came to be sewn onto my backpack is a long story,
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  Speaker 1: a story for another time. But when it glows, it
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  Speaker 1: means the Koala Moon's about to rise, which is why
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  Speaker 1: it's good job we made it to the river. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we're here. We had broken out of the treeline and
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  Speaker 1: found ourselves on the bank of a broad and winding river,
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  Speaker 1: its clear waters flowing gently downstream. Along the water's edge.
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  Speaker 1: Groups of magical forest creatures had gathered, chattering gaggles of friends,
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  Speaker 1: a family of tiny dragons with long scaly tails. They
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  Speaker 1: were all relaxing on the ground or lying on their
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  Speaker 1: backs and looking at the evening sky, which was a
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  Speaker 1: wash with pink and orange. Come on, Coco whispered. He
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  Speaker 1: led us to a little wooden jetty that reached out
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  Speaker 1: onto the river. The jetty had multicolored bean bags on it,
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  Speaker 1: and once Coco had unshouldered his backpack and plucked himself
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  Speaker 1: down on a blue one, the rest of us followed suit.
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  Speaker 1: The beams of my yellow bean bag seemed to move
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  Speaker 1: and reshape themselves, just in order to make me as
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  Speaker 1: comfy as possible. Beside me, Hector gave a sigh of satisfaction. Look,
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  Speaker 1: he said, the Cohala sunshine and the Coala moon are
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  Speaker 1: passing each other by. I looked up into the sky
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  Speaker 1: and saw that the sun and the moon were suspended
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  Speaker 1: in the sky at the same time. They each had
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  Speaker 1: the face of a Koala. The setting Koala sunshine glowed
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  Speaker 1: dark orange, his fur rippling with dusty light. He gave
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  Speaker 1: a yawn. It was almost the sun's bedtime, after all.
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  Speaker 1: The moon meanwhile, looked well rested. She had lustrous golden
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  Speaker 1: fair and let out a soft honey colored glow, the
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  Speaker 1: very same color as the moon patch I'd spotted on
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  Speaker 1: Coco's backpack. As they passed each other in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: the Koala moon and the Koala sunshine seemed to smile
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  Speaker 1: and wave at each other as though they were old friends.
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  Speaker 1: And I suppose that they must be, after all, they
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  Speaker 1: passed each other every dawn and every dusk. And then,
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  Speaker 1: just like that, the Koala sunshine slipped beneath the horizon,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the Koala Moon glowing in the sky. Stars like
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  Speaker 1: a thousand little fireflies came out to meet her. Night
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  Speaker 1: had fallen over the Koala kingdom. Here we go, whispered Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: The Koala Moon is about to sing her lullaby. I
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  Speaker 1: gazed up at the sky at the glowing Koala Moon,
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  Speaker 1: smiling down so lovingly upon all of us. Here she
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  Speaker 1: opened her mouth she began to sing. I remember the
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  Speaker 1: words she sang about how everyone in the world is loved,
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  Speaker 1: everyone in the world is cherished, you and me and
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  Speaker 1: everybody out there. But what I remember most of all
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  Speaker 1: is the feeling as the Koala moon sang her lullaby.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like I was drifting off into the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful dream. It seemed that some part of me became
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  Speaker 1: unloosed from my body, floated up above us, and saw
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  Speaker 1: all of the creatures laying out beside the glistening, sleepy river.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the silvery forests stretch out, the slender branches
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  Speaker 1: of the trees, the dense leaves of the canopies. In
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  Speaker 1: the distance, I saw snow capped mountains that looked so
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  Speaker 1: soft like pillowy peaks. I saw wondrous, beautiful jungles, And
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  Speaker 1: down at the furthest tip of the Koala Kingdom, I
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  Speaker 1: saw the peaceful cove where the sandy shore met the
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  Speaker 1: lapping waves of the big blue sea. I whispered to
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  Speaker 1: my new friends about what had happened, how I was
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  Speaker 1: still lying on the wooden jetty with them, but that
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  Speaker 1: I was also floating high above it. What part of
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  Speaker 1: me was the floating part, I asked, that's your imagination.
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  Speaker 1: Coco whispered back. The Koala Moon sings her bedtime lullabies,
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  Speaker 1: sending our bodies into peaceful sleep and setting our imaginations free,
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  Speaker 1: just like in a dream. And that was what it
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  Speaker 1: felt like. It felt as though I was in a dream,
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  Speaker 1: even though I wasn't. Golden leaves twisted through the air,
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  Speaker 1: water trickled over rocks. An ocean of peace wrapped its
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  Speaker 1: soft arms around me and hugged me close, while the
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  Speaker 1: notes of the Koala Moon's lullaby twinkled like raindrops all
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  Speaker 1: around me. I don't know how long I dozed for,
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  Speaker 1: but when I awoke, it was the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: The Koala Moon was smiling high above us, watching over us,
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  Speaker 1: and my friends were all asleep. I whispered good bye
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  Speaker 1: to them and crept back through sleepy forests the way
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  Speaker 1: I had come, following a trail of fireflies that lit
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  Speaker 1: the way to the magic tunnel. My body was happy
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  Speaker 1: and heavy with sleepiness. My heart was full of love.
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  Speaker 1: I had discovered a new world, a magical world that
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  Speaker 1: I always, deep down knew existed, and I had met
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  Speaker 1: some wonderful new friends Sydney, the squirrel, Hector, the golden retriever,
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  Speaker 1: Cocoa the Koala. I reached the enchanted hedgerow and duck
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  Speaker 1: down to crawl back through the hole. I came out
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, back beside the field, on the
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  Speaker 1: edge of lower starry skies, with my little red brick
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  Speaker 1: cottage standing peacefully before me. I eased, opened the door
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and tiptoed inside. My parents were in the living room,
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  Speaker 1: sitting by the fire, reading their books. I went in
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  Speaker 1: and kissed them both on the forehead. My mother smiled
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: softly at me. Where have you been, honey, she asked, Oh, nowhere?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I told her, just having fun in my imagination. She
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: smiled and nodded. She wished me good night. Good night, ma'am,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: I said, I love you. I love you, too, sweetheart,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: she replied. Then I slipped out of the living room,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: climbed the stairs, crossed the landing, and went into my
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  Speaker 1: own room. How soft my duvet was, how comforting my pillow.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea quite how tired I was until
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  Speaker 1: I lay my head down to rest. Sleep. Reached out
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  Speaker 1: its warm and gentle arms to hold me. I yawned.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I stretched my limbs I rolled over, I closed my eyes,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I fell asleep, and in my dreams I was beside
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the hedgerow again, crouching down low to crawl through the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: magical portal out I stepped into the Koala Kingdom, into
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: sleepy forest to meet my new friends. They were all there,
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  Speaker 1: Hector and Sydney and Cocoa, and on each of their
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: faces glowed smiles bright enough to compete with the glow
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  Speaker 1: of the Koala Moon herself. We're so glad you're here,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they told me. We've been waiting for you, And so
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I dreamed of the magical adventure I had been on
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  Speaker 1: that evening, of starlit skies and whispering forests, of cozy friends,
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  Speaker 1: and the Koala Moon's peaceful lullabies. The air around me
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  Speaker 1: tingled as I slept, tingled with magic and possibility. Their
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: mum's story ended, but Milly and Milo were already fast asleep.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Their chests rose in gentle rhythm with their breeze, and
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  Speaker 1: their eyelids fluttered with all the magical dreams they were having.
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  Speaker 1: Their mum leaned over and kissed them each on the head.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: She whispered good night. She rose from the bed, stretched
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and yawned. She was rather tired herself. Quietly as a mouse,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: she crept over to the door and switched out the light.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: She shut the door gently and made her way to
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  Speaker 1: her own bed. Her head was full of memories, memories
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: of wandering through sleepy forest, making friends with a golden retriever,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a squirrel, even a koala bear. Oh, what a wondrous
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: adventure she'd had. What sight she'd seen, And that was
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: just the beginning. Now we are sailing into a soft
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and peaceful sleep. Feel the soft and cozy support of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: your bed. Feel the way your body, heavy and happy
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: with sleepiness, is being carried upon it. It is as
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: though you were being carried on gentle ocean currents, on
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the rising and falling of waves. Feel how they are
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: lapping gently beneath you, bearing you into the land of sleep.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: These waves carrying you are deep and gentle, like our breath.
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  Speaker 1: Breathe with the waves. Breathe in.
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  Speaker 2: And uh in and uh they go in and uh in.
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  Speaker 3: And out.
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  Speaker 1: Close your eyes. Let your eyelids be heavy. Let your
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: whole body relax as you sail into sleep. Feel your
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: arms soft and heavy, and your legs and feet soft
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  Speaker 1: and heavy too. Let's pay some gentle attention to how
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: our bodies are feeling. Keep your eyes closed, and that
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: your mind come unhooked from your head. Your mind is
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a magical thing. It can stay inside your head, or
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it can travel all around your body, like a little
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: person wondering around a house to check that all is well.
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  Speaker 1: Let your mind travel first to your breath. Feel a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: breath moving through your nose. Feel the breath moving into
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: your chest or into your tummy, making it rise and fall,
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  Speaker 1: Rise and fall good. Just focus on your breathing as wonderful. Now,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: let your mind float down from your breath. Let it
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: travel down one of your arms. Feel the sensation in
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: your arm. Feel how it is heavy on the bed
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: or maybe soft tucked underneath your head as you sleep.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Let your mind travel down your fingers. First, let your
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: mind wander down to the tip of your thumb. Now
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: down your first finger, Now your middle finger, now your
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: ring finger, and last, but not least, your pinky. What
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: does it feel like at the end of your pinky.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Bring your mind back up to your breathing and breathe
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: in and out. Breathe in and out. Now we're traveling
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: with our minds all the way down our other arm.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Let your mind go down each of your fingers on
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that arm. First, let your mind wander down to the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: tip of your thumb. Now down your first finger, now
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: your middle finger, now your ring finger, and now your pinky.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Now, let your mind come back to your chest and
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: let it sit there, soft and heavy, right where your
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: heart is. If you let your mind rest there, you
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: will even be able to feel the gentle beating of
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: your heart. Do you know what your heart says as
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: it's beating, It says, I love, I love, I love.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: That's what everyone's heart beat says, I love, I love,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I love. And as everyone's heart beat says that the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: world fills up with love, The world fills up with
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: each heartbeat, like a lake filling up with the raindrops
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that fall from the sky. The lake of love can
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: never be too full, and it can never be empty.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: The whole world is full of love. You are loved.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Your family, you, your friends love you. People all across
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the world love you. The animals in the fields, and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the birds in the trees, and even the trees themselves.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: They all love you too, and we love them back.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: That is the beautiful thing about love. You can never
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: give too much of it, because it can never run out.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Love is like the water in the lake. There will
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: always be more of it. It falls from the sky
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: like rain and keeps us safe and happy. You are safe,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You are happy, You are loved. While you're floating through
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: your dreams, whisper your love to the world, Say I
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: love your world, and now listen out here the world
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: say it back. The world is saying I love you.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: The world is gentle, and you are gentle too. The
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: world is kind and you are kind to the world
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: is loved, and you are loved too. The rain loves
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the ground that falls upon, and the ground loves the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: grass and trees and flowers that grow grow up out
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: of it, And the grass loves the animals that walk
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: upon it. And so the animals love the world they
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: wander through because it is so beautiful. And the whole
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: world loves you. Feel how your body is drifting peacefully
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: upon the gentle lake. Let any worries that may have
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: lingered from the day sail away from your mind. Watch
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: them disappear, like a whole host of multi colored helium
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: blooms being released into the sky. Watch them as they go,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: As they soar up high, smaller and smaller. They get
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: smaller and smaller until they are just little specks in
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: the sky, and then they are gone. You are safe,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: you are kind. There is nothing to worry about as
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you drift into sleep, because you are drifting on the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: lake of love. You are safe, you are happy, You
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: are loved. The world is gentle, and you are gentle too.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: The world is kind and you are kind too. The
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: world is loved, and you are loved too. Close your eyes,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Let your eyelids get heavy, Let your limbs get heavy too.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Feel your arms and legs falling heavily into your soft
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and cozy bed. Feel your chest rising and falling with
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: your breathing, rising and falling like the waves on the
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: lake of love. Sleep, little one, You are safe, You
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: are happy, You are loved. There is more love in
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: this world than there are stars in the sky. There
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: is more kindness in this world than there are droplets
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of water in the entire lake. The world is gentle,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: and you are gentle too. The world is kind and
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: you are kind too. The world is loved, and you
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: are loved too. Good Night, little one, Sleep, night.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Das again, Day.
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  Speaker 4: Nine d.
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  Speaker 3: N d U The day begins.
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  Speaker 5: The name Nada.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: Then the.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: Ladi Da Da Da.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: Said.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: The idea.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: Un nay d up anything leading da.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 6: The names.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: Beginning anything.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: Una, Dad.
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 5: Much Mo, Dame.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 3: Anne, dallying.
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 5: Mo to get India.
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 3: The name Musa da Na Na said m du das.
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 4: The people.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 5: Lay Aga.
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 3: Would be unaid.
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  Speaker 6: The name
• 2:28:14
  Speaker 5: Nigh the