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

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is four 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 Arlotte, 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. The four gigantic boulders on

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pig Lady's front yard. Pig Lady, she had pigs, She

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raised pigs. We called her pig Ladies. Not anything evil,

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she was pig Lady. But the four giant boulders that

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are currently sitting on what used to be their yard.

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He had Alzheimer's and she was just unbelievably ill. So

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therefore they gave their lives to the next chapter. And

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the house has sat empty now for about six months.

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But nobody's going to know why these four boulders are

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here unless it's documented. I was here when they dug

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these boulders out of the earth while trying to rechannel

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the creek that sat behind their house because it was

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a flood zone and the goal was to try to

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figure out a way to get those waters to move

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in the right direction. So, whoever it was, the city,

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the state, or just somebody, what they did was they said, look,

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we've got to get new culverts in the ground, and

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we have to make sure that everything is going to

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be safe, not just for today, but for several generations

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beyond us. These rocks they came up from the soil.

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They dug them out. I don't know why the owner

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of this home, pig Lady's husband, chose to put them here,

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but it's very picturesque. It's very peaceful, and so many

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times I've walked by here and said I want to

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write here sometime. I don't know. Would people think I

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was weird, would people think I'm trespassing? But the four

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giant boulders in pig Ladies front yard, this is far

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from being natural. This was here and is here because

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they dug these rocks up from beneath the surface while

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trying to control the stream. Hey, thanks for being a

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part of the conversation.