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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I am the Poet in the Forest,

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a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I

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talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.

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Welcome back to the forest.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you can hear it, but this

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is tropical storm Debbie pounding hard on this forest in

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South Charlotte. We've seen our share of tropical storms, and

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I'm very blessed in this moment of now to see

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something that's very special. As hard as it's raining. You

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should see this box turtle on the floor of this forest.

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Speaker 1: He's just looking at me.

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Speaker 2: He's like, going, how are you doing today? Human? I'm

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sure glad that we've got some water finally. Now I

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can do some swimming while standing on land, and there's

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a lot of water on the land. Tropical storms come

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through here and they dump so much water on the

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forest and everything else around us, and then it disappears

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like a snowstorm. Yeah, when they say it's gonna snow,

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everybody gets all freaked out. It does snow, and then

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it goes away, just like this water will go away.

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But this turtle isn't going away. Right in the middle

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of this tropical storm, he's taking it all in. I

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don't see the deer, I don't see any of the birds,

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but I see the turtle just saying, Hi, how are you.

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Everything's going to be great, tropical storm Debbie, right here

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in our little forest. Hey, thanks for being a part

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of the conversation.