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[Music]
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hi there my name is Milly and thank you
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so much for joining me today for
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storytime um I am going to read a very
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personal book to you today and it's
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called drawn together illustrated by the
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amazing dance Santa who is a good friend
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and also one of my favorite author
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illustrators back to have one of his
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books The Adventures of meikle on my
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office wall um but this book is very
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personal to me because it is inspired by
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my relationship with my own grandparents
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I'm given he's American so I was born
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here in the United States but my
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families are bridging from Vietnam and
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my grandparents spoke mostly in
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Vietnamese um while I spoke most English
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whenever I go to the house I love them
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so much they love me so much but like I
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still had trouble of talking to them
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communicating with them I'm not sure if
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you have the same experience with anyone
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in your family but so I want to write a
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book that kind of captured both the the
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depth of love and emotion there but also
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talked about like the struggles that can
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come with with these relationships so
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what I didn't realize is Dan who is Thai
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American had a similar relation with his
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grandmother who spoke on having
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exclusively tied and so they had a
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similar communication gap so it's a very
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personal book to both of us so much so
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that if you look at the dedication page
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you'll see we dedicates our grandparents
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there's my grandfather right there and
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there's Dan's grandmother
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shall we begin are you ready here we go
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come together by me illustrate by Dan
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Santa and you'll see this his lovely
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gold sticker on the front because we
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were fortunate enough to receive the
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asian-pacific American Library
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Association Award for for best picture
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book of last year so I'm very honored by
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that so our book begins with this boy
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who's being dropped off by his mom
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he knows I've been ringing the doorbell
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and his grandfather answers the door and
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he you can tell his grandfather super
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excited to see him sell my grandson's
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here so they greet each other with this
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traditional Thai greeting and the
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grandfather waves goodbye to his
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daughter and then the grand fireless the
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boy come inside and look boys walks in
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and he's you know he's not so sure he's
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looking a little bit iffy about this but
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they go inside and sit down to eat and
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the grandfather's made himself this
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beautiful bowl of noodle soup
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but because he loves his grandson he
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wants him to be happy he makes him a hot
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dog and french fries and because he's a
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good grandfather he also adds a little
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side salad to make sure that he gets his
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vegetables but they sat down to eat and
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the grandson asks so what's new grandpa
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and the grandfather responds to the
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question and tie but unfortunately they
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can't understand each other so that's as
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far as they can go and a quick note for
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those of you who are reading along at
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home on this page you'll see right above
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the mom's car are the translations for
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all the the type text so the grandfather
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here is actually saying how are you
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doing so the boy saying huh what's new
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grandpa and grab for saying how are you
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doing they're so close they're trying to
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have a conversation but that's as far as
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they can get so they continue eating so
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afterwards they sit down and they watch
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a movie and it looks super exciting
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right there's a guy in the corner
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shouting sexy shining dragon but the
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green flowers watching his grandson to
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see how he's how he's doing and he asked
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a question in Thai which is and the boy
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asks can we watch something else
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so here the grandfather is actually
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asking would you like to watch something
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else so again they're right there
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they're so close but they they're not
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able to communicate any further so they
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keep watching the movie in silence
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so eventually the boy gets tired he's
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like you know what I can't follow along
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I'm gonna go do something else he goes
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to his bag he pulls out some paper some
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colored pencils and pens and the
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grandfather walks over peek so very
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shoulder and to see what his grandson is
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doing and he sees that his grandson is
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drawing a picture of himself as a wizard
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my grandfather gets super excited by
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this so the grandfather goes off to the
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other room and he comes back with his
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own sketch bed and some paint brushes
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and some ink and now we hear the boy
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thinking I knew things right when I gave
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up on talking my grandfather surprised
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me by revealing a world beyond words and
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then a flash we see each other for the
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first time and here you'll see the boy
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as his wizard character and on the other
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side let's see if the grandfather has
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paint a picture of himself as one of the
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heroes from his childhood you see he has
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his amazing staff that's also a brush
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now all the things we could never say
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come pouring out it's a pen son the
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grandfather there creating all this
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including this just funny little monkey
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so all the things we could never say
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come pouring out and we build a new
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world that even though words can't
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describe you'll see down here in the
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corner the grandson and the grandfather
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is standing there surveying this amazing
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world that they've created together
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but just when we're closer than ever so
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something's starting to happen just from
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poster than ever that old distance so
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the ground splits apart let's see the
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grand so I'm on way on the side but the
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next two grandfathers brush and way on
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the other side is a grandfather sitting
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next to the boys magic wand so that old
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distance comes roaring back you'll see
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this dragon comes screaming out of the
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ground so the grandfather guys voice is
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wand made point at the dragon and the
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boy grabs her grandfather staff and then
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the faces off against the dragon it says
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this time I'm not afraid because I know
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that together we can make our way across
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if you look closely the dragon just
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didn't disappear the grandfather and
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grandson faced off against it and they
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transformed it into this bridge so
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instead of letting it keep them apart
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they transformed there's something that
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will bring them together so now after
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years of searching for the right words
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we find ourselves happily speechless and
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now we're back in the world in the
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grandfather's home you can see
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grandfather grandson are hugging and on
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the back wall as you can see that entire
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adventure that whole world that we were
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just a part of was actually taking place
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in the artwork that the grandfather and
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grandson were making together and then
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it's time to go home the mom comes back
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and she is so excited because her father
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and her son family found that connected
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finally found that common ground so the
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mom and grandfather hug and as they
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waved goodbye as they say goodbye
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they'll see that the boy is holding one
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of their grandfather's paintbrushes and
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the grandfather is holding one of the
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boys markers so now they've made that
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connection that's something they're
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going to continue to build upon so
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grandfather waves goodbye with future
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adventures awaiting
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down the road and that is drawn together
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I hope you enjoyed our book like I said
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it comes from a very personal place my
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my grandfather unfortunately passed away
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before I was able to share this book
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with him but I'm confident he knew how I
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felt about about our relationship um
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that being said for you all out there
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listening if there are people in your
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life that you do you haven't talked to
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in a while or you're kind of like
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struggling to figure out how to
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communicate with I'm telling you there's
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no time like the present to to reach out
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and just let them know how you feel tell
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them that you love them I hope you
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enjoyed storytime hopefully I'll be able
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to share some more stories with you in
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the future until then have a great day
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bye I almost forgot something there is a
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secret in this book I want to share with
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you
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so if you take this book and you take
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the cover off the jacket um you take it
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off you'll see that underneath is this
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sketchbook
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I may look familiar to you on the scene
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where the grandfather runs off the other
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room and comes back with with his
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sketchbook
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so that's a that's a nice detail that
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Dan and our editor wrote em maskavich
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and the art director Joanne he'll added
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I think it makes the story of really
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special so I really want to make sure to
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share that with you and now by for real
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