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W O U L D Y O U T E L L A C H I L D R E N ’ S S T O R Y T H I S W A Y ?

Let me tell you a story in which a caterpillar eats a

lot of fruit and turns into a beautiful butterfly.

See him eating all that fruit? I belt he loves it. Look, now he’s turning into a butterfly!

How great was it that the caterpillar ate a bunch of fruit and turned into a butterfly!?

YO U R F I R S T M I N U T Eis the most important.

M Y T H N O 2

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M Y T H N O 3

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