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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. Every once in a while,

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you've got to share the story of the bag of shame.

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Speaker 2: You know, the bag of shame. All dog owners are

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supposed to have the bag of shame. If you take

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your fuzzy child out for a walk, you got to

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have the bag because that's how you're going to pick

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up with the dog as autographic earth with. You know,

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it's a good thing that people do that because many

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of us, as we're walking down a path inside of forest,

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we never really get into anything more than everything that

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we're receiving. And when we step into that pile, you

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know what you just received. It could become a long

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day's worth of embarrassment, because everywhere you go you can't

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shake that smell that should have been in the bag

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of shame now one of my pet peeves, and it's

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not that bad, but it's pretty bad. Thank you so

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much for cleaning up after your dog. But if you

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take note here, you left your classic bag behind and

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according to science, that little surprise on the inside could

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last a thousand years. Why do people do that? They

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leave their bags of shame on the ground. Are they

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expecting people like myself to come by and clean up

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after them? No, I wouldn't clean up after your dog. Hm,

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the bag of shame. Nobody really likes to do it,

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but we do and we're good people for doing it.

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And then the bag of shame that's left on the ground.

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Thanks for being a part of the conversation.