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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. I often wonder if the

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free spirited deer, the dough the fawn, the bucks, if

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they ever look at Jazzy and I Jazzy Appointer and

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they look at her on this leash, and they think

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inside their hearts, their deer hearts, we need to free

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that girl so she can roam like we do all

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day and all night. Because I know she's probably fed

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once in the morning, once at night. But it's the

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deer population. We can feed at any time. We can

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walk through any yard, we can jump any fence, we

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can be in this forest. But I do wonder if

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the deer see us with our dogs and think they're trapped,

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how can we free that animal? Sure we'll probably have

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to run a little bit faster because they don't understand

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our language and we're so different than the dog. But

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to see a dog on a leash walking through this forest,

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it seems so mean when they could just be as

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free as we are. The dough, the fawn, the bucks,

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the deer population. Hey, thanks for being a part of

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the conversation.