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Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates with Tim Myers
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May 21, 2020
Calling all parents! Grab your kids and join us LIVE! with host Caren Glasser and this weeks special guest... best selling children's author Tim Myers on Once Upon A Storytime! 👩👧👦📚 Tim is reading his book Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates. Yao Bai is finally old enough to sail with his father and uncle to the Farallon Islands, to gather the precious eggs seabirds lay there. But on their way home they encounter trouble on the sea―pirates! Just when Yao’s father and uncle believe their hard day’s work would all be gone, Yao comes up with a clever plan. But will it be enough to save all the eggs? Check out more shows and free activity downloads here: http://www.onceuponastorytime.live Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/carenglasser Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/carenglasserlive Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/carenglasser Pick up a copy of Tim's book here: https://bit.ly/37UuKgF Visit The Kids Corner: http://www.TheKidsKorner.store 👈 📌 Subscribe to Channel: https://YouTube.com/cgmusc #onceuponastorytime #fullofempty #childrensliteracy #timjmeyers #childrensbooks #storytime #childrensauthor #storyteller #childliteracy #literacyadvocate
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a storytime I'm so glad you joined us we
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have a great story for you today so
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let's jump in and have some fun and if
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and say hi we'd love to say hi back
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today we are welcoming New York Times
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best-selling children's author Tim J
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Myers and he is going to be reading from
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his book yeah bye and the egg pirates I
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have to say I love that name I want to
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know what an egg pirate is but before we
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cut to that let me give you a little bit
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of background on Tim J Myers he is a
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widely published writer storyteller
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songwriter visual artist and senior
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lecturer at Santa Clara University his
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work has made the New York Times
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bestseller list for children's books and
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has been reviewed in The Times and read
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aloud on NPR so without further ado we
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welcome Tim to the show hey how you
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doing hi Karen and hello kids of the
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world how are you doing I hope
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everybody's doing great there is nothing
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quite like sharing stories
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so I'm here to do that and today I am
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delighted to say that I'll be reading
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you my book yeah bye and the egg pirates
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and I can't wait so before we start we
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want everyone to snuggle in with the
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people that they came with maybe it's a
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mom and a dad or a grandma or grandpa or
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brother or sister or aunt or uncle
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whoever it is snuggle in with them
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because it's time for story time are you
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ready Tim I'm ready good here we go hey
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kids
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now I live in the Bay Area which is very
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close to San Francisco and off the coast
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of San Francisco there are some
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beautiful islands called the farallon's
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they're way out there in the ocean now
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in the old days in California there was
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a Gold Rush one of the biggest gold
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rushes in the world people found gold
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and the miners came by the thousands
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from all over the world and one of the
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problems they had was how do you feed so
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many miners San Francisco was a tiny
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little town at that time not a big city
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well out there on the islands what they
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had
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were seabirds you can kind of see them
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in the picture and what a seabirds do
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they lay eggs especially this kind of
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bird called a mer and the mers laid eggs
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that were big and thick shelled and one
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egg could feed three men so people
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started going out to the islands to get
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the eggs to sell to the gold miners
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there was money to be made and there
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were miners to be fed well my book is a
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story about a Chinese boy and his father
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and uncle will go out to get some of
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these eggs and I want to dedicate this
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to Chinese Americans today because
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Chinese Americans have done so much for
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America yeah bye and the egg pirates and
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you will find out what an egg pirate is
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pardon me I'm trying to get this up into
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that I'm doing it the wrong way
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yeah I was dreaming of whales when a
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gentle hand woke him get up now son his
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mother said today is a new adventure
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you sail to the islands rubbing his
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hands for warmth in the dawn chill now
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hurry to the beach there his father and
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uncle were preparing their small boat
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out across the shallow bay sunlight
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flooded the world after years of famine
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and war Yao's family had crossed the
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ocean from China to gold mountain
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their name for America y'all had been
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sad to leave China but sadder still that
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they saw no whales during their long
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journey now you can imagine what it
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would be like if you haven't seen a
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whale but if you have you can remember
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it's an amazing thing to see a whale in
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the open ocean
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now Yas family lived in a fishing camp
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nestled in Upper San Francisco Bay north
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of the city
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the boy from next door came running
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going shrimping yeah no Kuan we're
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sailing out on the ocean to the islands
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where the sea birds lay eggs to collect
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them for all those hungry gold miners
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we'll make a fortune
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Yahoo we need you his father said
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sharply yeah ran to help
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what about Pirates Kwan asked they might
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steal your eggs and it's true pirates
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actually did steal eggs from the egg
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gatherers back in those days our fishing
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taxes do y'all's father said and we must
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send more money to our family in
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Guangdong miners pay a lot for eggs as
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for pirates we'll just have to take our
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chances Yas mother came running don't
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forget to rub poo tais belly for luck
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she said yells uncle laughed but they
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each held the small stature of the God
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as yeah rubbed he prayed silently give
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us good fortune and please keep pirates
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away when you return yells mother said
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I'll mix the eggs with shrimp she winked
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at Yahoo shrimp foo yung my favorite he
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cried can you guess who else loves
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shrimp foo yung yes I do
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very very much soon they dragged the
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boat into the little surf and set their
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sail before long they rounded the Marin
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Headlands made for the open ocean
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Yao gazed across the water at San
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Francisco with its house covered hills
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and the forest of masts crowding
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its peers current wind and tide move
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them quickly out of the bay the morning
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land breeze was behind them
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the Seas gentle to the west they could
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see the islands the farallon's 26 miles
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away their stony points clear against
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the Blue Horizon and maybe you can see a
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little hint of something in this picture
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yaow his father said we have to watch
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for pirates stay alert
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yes Father Yahoo shivered when they
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reached the main island the Sun was high
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overhead
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we only want myrrh eggs yeah uncle said
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the shells are thick hard to break the
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birds fly off when humans come leaving
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the eggs on oh sorry
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unpress unprotected pardon me and the
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eggs are so big one can feed three
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people now his father said you gathered
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near the boat where it's safer we'll go
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higher
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soon yah was scrambling over the rocks
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filling his basket admiring the graceful
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shapes of the speckled eggs in a few
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hours their boat was full and they set
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sail for home the eggs clicking gently
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against each other with the rocking of
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the hall well it sounds like they're in
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good shape
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they've got the eggs for a time they
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watch the land grow larger as the west
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wind drew them on yah was getting sleepy
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when something caught his eye
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sails he yelled pointing East his father
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jumped up pirates yell asked fearfully
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his uncle nodded all that worked for
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nothing
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yeah uncle said shaking his head yow
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looked at their precious cargo suddenly
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an idea came to him we can hide the eggs
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where the uncle said his uncle said we
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couldn't hide anything on such a small
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boat in a rush Yahoo explained his plan
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I never would have thought of that said
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yeah uncle with the laugh even yes
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father smiled it quickly got to work the
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pirate boat was still a half mile off
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when they finished not an egg could be
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seen now yeah his father said you
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tend to fish when the larger boat drew
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up yaow could see hard looking faces
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a sailor called out what are
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you doing here
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Yao saw his father winced angrily at the
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hated word and noticed how his uncle's
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jaw tightened fishing yah his father
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answered in English just fishing the man
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asked suspiciously not much else to do
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out here said yeah uncle the man glared
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you given me lip boy no said yeah uncle
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looking straight into the man's eyes
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ease up Geoffrey's an older man emerge
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from behind a pile of baskets he looked
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their boat over carefully seems like
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he's the boss doesn't it why don't you
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cross on over make sure they're telling
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the truth he said quietly Jefferies gave
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a nasty smile but just as he lifted his
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leg to step onto the boat a great watery
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woosh filled the air when Yahoo looked
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up he thought his heart would stop an
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immense humpback whale it's dark skin
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speckled with white barnacles lifted
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itself high out of the waves then it's
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slumped sideways falling back with a
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huge splash that left both boats rocking
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madly the men grabbed for anything to
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hang on to as the boats pitched
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dangerously close to each other finally
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the rocking eased we don't need no
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damage to our boat the pirate boss said
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ain't got eggs let's clear out he stared
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hard at yahoos father and we don't need
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your kind around here understand his
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heart thumping yeah watch the big boat
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pull away
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once the pirate sails disappeared Yao
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helped halt in their nets as the eggs
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came dripping from the water yeah
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laughed with joy the eggs felt cold to
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the touch as they lowered them gingerly
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back into the hole only three were
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broken gold screeched and dog was yeah
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uncle threw the shells overboard so you
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see his wonderful idea they put the eggs
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and then nets and put them under water
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good thing we rub who ties belly said
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yeah uncle it brought us luck after all
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yeah did too said Yas father smiling I'm
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proud of you my son soon they tied up in
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a wharf in the city and yells father
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sold the eggs stuffing more money than
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Yao had ever seen into his worn purse
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keeping a few eggs for themselves they
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sailed home as they neared the beach all
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the families came running the Twilight
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was soon full of the mouth-watering
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smell of shrimp foo yung who that makes
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me really really hungry sitting around a
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fire everyone ate till they could eat no
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more and listen to the story of Yao's
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delicious trickery ten times over then
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they talked and laughed till the moon
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was high it was late when Yale finally
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dropped into bed happy and exhausted
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when you woke this morning his mother
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said tucking him in did you ever think
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this day would be so wonderful it was
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wonderful yaw murmured I saw a whale
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then he slept a bit of shrimp who young
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still clinging to his lip
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the end oh my goodness oh my goodness
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that was awesome now I know what what
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the eggs and and all that all about that
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was a great great story Tim while you
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were reading we had some comments and
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some questions first of all I mean I
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don't know if I'm gonna say this right
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Irene Hart our entire fourth grade class
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visiting way to go I and Bigelow said or
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Mickey Mickey said what is it like to be
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an author because I get to be working
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having fun thinking about things all the
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time so this book was written because my
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family and I took a boat tour out to
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those Islands I got very season ik I saw
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a shark and we saw the whales jumping
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and while I'm out having front of that
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boat the seasick part wasn't fun but
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while I'm out having fun on that boat I
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was working as an author because it gave
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me the idea for this book I love being
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an author I love that and we had one
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more question and I think this is great
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because we always should give credit to
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the illustration Glenn ask that question
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Mason thank you these pictures were made
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by Bonnie pang you can see her name I
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get this up here right Bonnie's
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illustrations are fabulous I am so
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grateful to her they really they're
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beaut they're absolutely beautiful
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so I'm putting up an image right now of
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the book so that people can see it
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clearly what the book looks like and
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this book is available on Once Upon a
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story time dot live so we're going to
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encourage people to go head on over
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there and pick up a copy now that you've
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heard the story I'm sure you're gonna
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want to read it again and again and look
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at the beautiful beautiful pictures so I
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wanted to put that up there and as
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normal Tim as you know and all the rest
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of the authors oh here we got another
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comment we have it okay so we have to
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put these up because they're fun
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Peter Rumble says Sandra Rumble and her
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fourth bundle said your fourth
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you guys made my day thank you I love it
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I love it so we always do a download we
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always have something that our our
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friends can go back afterwards to keep
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the fun going long after the shows have
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ended and in this case we have something
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a little bit different this is more for
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our teachers and of course our parents
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right now our teachers right so tell us
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a little bit about what they can expect
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to get so they're not surprised because
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it's like 13 pages or something like
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that so tell us tell us they might
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intimidate you I'm a teacher and I was a
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teacher educator for a long time so I
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have a lot of materials to use this book
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to teach kids and I really emphasize in
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a way that really motivates kids is
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really interesting for kids but I also
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synched it all up with the California
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language arts and social studies
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standards where if you're doing this you
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can go in it's written for teachers but
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parents as teachers or just as parents
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there's plenty of little ideas you can
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pull out of that to work with your kids
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at all you can have fun and learn at the
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same time which is the best thing ever
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yeah you know what and I thank you for
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that because you know it's wonderful to
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watch and to listen to a story but to be
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able to go out afterwards and do some
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activities and keep the fun going that's
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what it's all about so along those lines
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we're going to send people over to your
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website thank you iron ore a song calm
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to check out everything else that's
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going on with you and if you're playing
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on Twitter which I do I don't know how
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many of you play on a Twitter you can go
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check out Tim there at T Myers story
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song and if you happen to be a Facebook
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person go to Tim Jay Myers one and just
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put it in the search engine and you will
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find him and then finally go on over to
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youtube and put Tim Jay Myers in it
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because you'll find all of Tim's YouTube
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videos you are awesome
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this has been so much fun I can't wait
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for you to come back and read one of
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your other stories like
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waiting to come back and we have an O
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you know what I have we're I'm just
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gonna keep putting the comments alone so
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Annie says with a heart hello thank you
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for setting this up you're so welcome
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it's our pleasure yeah for Karen and
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then we have our other fourth-grade
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class thank you so much we sing a song
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about the gold rush and say and we say
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eggs cause three dollars it's true it's
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true that there's even a story from that
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time that things were things are so
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expensive that miners would buy pears
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and apples on trees before they grew on
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the trees and they put a little piece of
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paper around the tree saying this pair
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belongs to Joe so that's we should sing
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about that we absolutely should well we
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want to thank everyone for showing up
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today because we know that you had a
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choice and you decided to come listen to
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Tim tell his story so we're gonna see
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you guys next next week for a bunch of
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other programming but I want to make
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sure you come back tomorrow
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because we welcome Rachel rush from
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mindful circle for some yoga fun on once
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upon a yoga time and again don't forget
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to go check out Once Upon a story time
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dot live to pick up the downloads the
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activity sheets and to go purchase your
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own copy of the book so we want to say
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goodbye to everyone and we'll see you
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next time
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