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In tonight's premium bedtime story for kids, we're going to find where those balloons go after they are let go of, and get swept into the sky all thanks to two best friends, Kitty and Ross, and one very special bright red balloon called Pop. Relax, get sleepy, and letβs begin!
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. In the middle of
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Speaker 1: the countryside, among the rolling fields of grass and wheat
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Speaker 1: and barley, where sheep and cows grazed peacefully and brooks
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Speaker 1: trickled through clutches of leafy woodland, stood two red brick cottages.
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Speaker 1: They were the only two houses for Miles and Miles,
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Speaker 1: and the nearest town to them was a long drive away.
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Speaker 1: So it was pretty lucky for Kitty, who lived in
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Speaker 1: one of the cottages that her best friend Ross lived
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Speaker 1: in the other. Maybe they became best friends because they
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Speaker 1: lived next door to each other, But if you asked her,
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Speaker 1: Kitty thought there was more to it than that. As
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Speaker 1: far as she was concerned, it was more like an
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Speaker 1: act of fate than of mere chance that Ross's parents
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Speaker 1: had decided to move into the house next door to her,
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Speaker 1: because from the moment she and Ross met, they knew
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Speaker 1: they were going to be the best of friends. They
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Speaker 1: loved doing all the same things, climbing trees, building forts,
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Speaker 1: play fighting with sticks. They liked watching the ducklings paddling
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Speaker 1: down the river, and they liked putting up a tent
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Speaker 1: in the garden and listening to the hoops the owls
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Speaker 1: made to each other through the night. But most of all,
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Speaker 1: they liked sending messages tied to the ends of balloons.
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Speaker 1: Ross's dad to tank of helium in his garage, and
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Speaker 1: every now and then he'd drive Kitty and Ross into
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Speaker 1: town to buy a little patch of biodegradable balloons. Then
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Speaker 1: they'd blow them up, draw faces on them in black
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Speaker 1: marker pen and let them bob about the ceiling of
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Speaker 1: the garage like a crowd of multicolored, funny looking people.
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Speaker 1: After that, they'd take a couple of the balloons and
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Speaker 1: tie little pieces of card onto the ends. On these cards,
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Speaker 1: they'd have written notes things like hello from Kitty and Ross,
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Speaker 1: or this balloon is a gift from an extra terrestrian.
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Speaker 1: They'd go outside and let the balloon go and watch
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Speaker 1: it fly off into the sky until it disappeared out
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Speaker 1: of sight. For a long time afterwards, they'd wonder where
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Speaker 1: in the world the balloon would land, and whether the
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Speaker 1: person who found it would laugh over their messages. One day,
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Speaker 1: when they were clambering up huge cylindrical hay bales as
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Speaker 1: though they were mountains to climb, Ross told Kitty that
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Speaker 1: he had some news for her. His dad had got
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Speaker 1: a new job, and in just a couple of weeks time,
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Speaker 1: they'd be moving house to the other side of the country.
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Speaker 1: At first, Kitty was sad when she heard this news,
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Speaker 1: but soon she brightened up. She was excited for Ross
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Speaker 1: getting to discover a new place and start a new
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Speaker 1: chapter in his life. And they'd still be best friends,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't they, of course, said Ross, You'll always be my
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Speaker 1: best friend, goodenough to come and visit me when I've moved,
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Speaker 1: and I'll leave you the new address so we can
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Speaker 1: be pen pals. The prospect of being pen pals was
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Speaker 1: very exciting. Indeed, Kitty had never had someone to write
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Speaker 1: letters to before. Suddenly her dreams were filled with scrolled
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Speaker 1: up bits of parchment covered with curling calligraphy and blots
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Speaker 1: of ink, And for the following weeks, Kitty and Ross
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Speaker 1: couldn't stop talking about all the things they'd do when
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Speaker 1: she came to visit Ross's new house, the adventures they'd
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Speaker 1: go on, the fresh new sights they'd have to see.
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Speaker 1: On the day that Ross was due to move, he
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Speaker 1: came over to Kitty's house, gave her a big hug,
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Speaker 1: and handed her a scrap of paper with his new
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Speaker 1: address on it. Show that you can write to me,
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