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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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Can you hear it? The piano teacher at the base

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of Heartbreak Hill? What amazing music. A car is going

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to drive by now inside this forest. But I would

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love for you to listen to the piano teacher just

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a moment in this forest, as a gigantic jet is

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about ready to fly over kind of a forest, is

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that right? I seen that, Holy crab. It's a big

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old Air Force jet, a B fifty two bomber. So

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that must be what it sounds like in times of

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war when the jets are flying over. But we're in

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a time of peace inside this forest. This is kind

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of a strange forest story this time around. Maybe it's

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the humanization of the forest and it's not such a

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fantasy land for a poet, one who happens to write

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in a forest. And then it gets quiet, and the

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birds return and the squirrels are playing. But during that

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moment when that large airplane from the US Air Force

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was going over, it's almost like they ran. Even I stopped.

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The first time was to hear the piano music. The

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second time the size of that Air Force jet. A

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day in the forest, a forest that's changing, that is

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really just amazing to be in, but you fear for

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its future, which is the reason why I share these

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stories inside this forest. Hey, thanks for being a part

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of the conversation.