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Speaker 1: Almost everyone is at least a little bit ticklish. Maybe

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you have a ticklish spot under your arms, or perhaps

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on your belly, or maybe your weak spot is right

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under your toes. But what if you were so ticklish

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that even sitting on a chair made you burst out laughing.

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Now that would be unusual. Today's story is called that tickles.

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Let's get into it. Yellowell, story time is really not

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a glory time ram a standing You'll be fine. Follow

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the whole storyline. Hellol, story time made you laugh at

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least one time. Now, this is the story of a

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kid who loved to laugh. He laughed at funny jokes,

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he laughed at people getting pies in the face, and

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he laughed whenever someone asked who cut the cheese. Harvey,

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like many kids, was often found laughing. But there was

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one kind of laughter he had never experienced, the kind

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that happens when someone brushes you with a feather while

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saying coochie coochio. Harvey had seen other kids get tickled,

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some even collapse to the floor, laughing so hard they

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had tears in their eyes. Other kids he had seen

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had been begging for mercy, and on rare occasions, some

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came dangerously close to peeing their pants. It was a

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very strange thing for Harvey to witness because, unlike everyone else,

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Harvey just wasn't ticklish. I just don't get it, He

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would think to himself, what's so funny about that? One day,

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Harvey decided to get to the bottom of it. His friend, Lydia,

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was the most ticklish person he knew. So, Lydia, what's

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the deal? Like? Am I missing something here? Is it

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just one of those inside jokes I don't really understand?

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Harvey was hoping his friend could explain what made tickling

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so funny. Lydia, who had lots of older brothers and sisters,

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had been on the receiving end of tickle torture for

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most of her life. Dude, listen up, because I'm only

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going to tell you this once. There was absolutely nothing

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funny about being tickled. Nothing funny. Harvey hated to be

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that guy, but he felt he had to say it anyway. Lydia,

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you said you were only gonna tell me once, but

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then you just said it twice. Lydia scowled, Well, then

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maybe you need to hear it for a third time.

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Not funny. This was the part that confused Harvey the most.

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Did laughter and funniness not go together, like thunder and lightning,

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like cops and robbers, like diapers and dirty bums. Harvey

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almost felt silly for asking his next question, Well, if

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it's not funny, then why do you laugh so much, Harvey,

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because that's what being tickled makes you. Wait a second,

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why are you even asking me this? You know what

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it's like, don't you. Harvey gave an awkward little shrug. Dude,

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you've never been tickled before. Lydia was suddenly smiling like

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an evil bad guy. With her fingertips ready to go.

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She began creeping forward. Oh I am going to enjoy this.

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She started with the belly, but Harvey didn't flinch. Then

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she tried tickling his neck, but he had no reaction

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there either. Thought for sure she could get him on

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the sides, but he just stood there looking bored. It

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wasn't that people hadn't tried For some reason, Harvey just

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didn't feel ticklish. Everyone has a ticklish spot, man, We

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just have to find yours. The armpits were next. Most

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people Lydia knew would be howling with laughter after having

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their under arms tickled, but not, Harvey. All right, then

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take off your shoes, she ordered, excuse me, shoes off.

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Your weak spot has got to be your feet. Harvey

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did as he was told. Lydia plugged her nose with

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one hand and used her other hand to tickle his feet. See, Lydia,

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I don't find any of this funny. Even dad jokes

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are better than this. Lydia now seemed like an angry

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bad guy who had just been made to look a fool.

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It's not supposed to be funny, Harvey. She stormed off

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and returned a few minutes later holding a feather. What's

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that for, Harvey asked? Everyone has a ticklish spot, Harvey, everyone,

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it seems yours might be on your back, and that's

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where I draw the line. Harvey. Do you have a

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pencil or pen or whatever else people use when they

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need to draw the line? Harvey pulled a cran out

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of his pocket. Will this do? Lydia accepted the cran

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and pretended to draw a line through the air between

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her and Harvey. I am not tickling anyone on the rumpus.

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That's where I draw the line. So take this feather

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and try it for yourself. While reaching for the feather,

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Harvey stumbled and fell forward. The feather brushed against the

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side of his head, and as it did, Harvey let

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out a little giggle. Hearing this, Lydia continued using the

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feather on that same spot. Her friend laughed a little

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harder this time, Harvey, I think we found your ticklers spot,

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and might I add what a weird spot it is.

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Harvey straightened himself out. You're right, though, that wasn't funny,

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but for some reason I still laughed. To be really

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sure Lydia used her fingers this time, making sure she

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got all the way through his hair and right down

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to the skin. Harvey was laughing so hard as eyes

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were beginning to water. I'm ticklish. I'm ticklish. I understand

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it now, I'm ticklish. Harvey skipped all the way home

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with a smile as big as his face. There hadn't

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been anything wrong with him, He just never found his

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tickler spot. What a delightful discovery this was. At home,

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he further discovered that you cannot tickle yourself. It didn't

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matter if he used his fingertips, the feather, or a hairbrush.

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If he was in control, his ticklish spot did not

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feel ticklish. Hey, mom, see this little spot on the

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side of my head, just above my ear. Would you

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mind putting your fingers there and having them do a

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little dance. Harvey's mother looked skeptical. Harvey, what are you

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up to? Is this gonna be like the time you

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asked me to pull your finger? No, Mom, just try it.

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As soon as his mother started tickling the side of

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his head, Harvey began giggling. See him, hum, look at that.

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I'm ticklish. I'm ticklish. Well then, uh, congratulations. A bit

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of a weird place to be ticklers, though, don't you think?

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Harvey didn't think it was weird at all. He thought

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it was great. At school the next day, Lydia pulled

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Harvey aside in the hallway. Dude, you need to cool it, okay.

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I just heard you've been going up to everyone in

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sight and asking them to tickle you. I heard you

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even walked into the principal's office during a meeting with

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a parent and asked her to tickle you. Is that true? Indeed,

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it was true, as it had been with the vice principal,

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the secretary, the custodian, the basketball coach, the school nurse,

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and the class pet from missus loudspeaker's room. Sorry, Lydia,

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It's just I've been waiting my whole life to feel ticklish,

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and now that I finally am, I just don't want

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it to stop. For someone who could not stand being tickled,

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Lydia was struggling to relate. Well, enjoy it while it lasts, bud,

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because pretty soon you're gonna start finding it very annoying.

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Lydia figured Harvey would be complaining to her by the

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next day, but instead, Harvey somehow seemed even more excited

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than before. Lady Lydia, you'll never believe it. Remember yesterday

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how I only had one ticklish spot above my ear, Well,

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now the other side is ticklish, and one of my

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shoulders is ticklish too. The day after that, he came

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up to her and told her that both spots above

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his ears were ticklish, as were both of his shoulders,

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and now he even felt ticklish on his belly and

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his sides. Harvey, don't you find it a bit odd

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that you seem to be getting more and more ticklish

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each day? Just a few days ago, we didn't think

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you were even ticklish at all. Nothing about this seemed

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odd to Harvey. He was loving every minute of it.

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Several days later, Harvey reported that he now had more

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tickler spots than he did non tickler spots. Lydia, you

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were not kidding about the underarms. Wow, like talk about

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a spot that really gets you laughing. I can't believe

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I didn't pee my pants. It wasn't until Harvey's entire

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body had become ticklish that he was ready to admit

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that he might have a problem. Harvey had been sitting

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in class and had started giggling for seemingly no reason

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at all. The teacher scowled and asked him what was

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so funny. Harvey tried to compose himself, but it was

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hard Harvey. Lydia whispered, leaning over from her desk, what

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are you doing? In between bouts of muffled laughter. Harvey

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did his best to explain, So, remember when you drew

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the line at rump as tickling. Well, turns out my

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rump is is ticklish, and right now my chair is

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tickling it. Lady had never heard of someone's bottom getting

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tickled just by sitting on their chair. Later, she watches

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her friends started giggling while holding his pencil. Apparently the

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touch of the pencil made his fingers feel ticklish. It

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only got worse when someone opened a window in the classroom,

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allowing a gentle breeze to pass through. That tickles, Harvey said,

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rubbing his cheeks. Lydia was getting worried. There was no

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reason a slight breeze should cause someone's cheeks to feel ticklish.

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Their teacher had some concerns of her own. Harvey, that

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is enough. You've been laughing non stop all day. Is

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there something you find funny about on a monopeas? Harvey

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hadn't been laughing because his teacher had been teaching them

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about on a monopeas, but he did think the word

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on amnopea was kind of funny. Sorry, miss I just

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can't stop laughing. Everything keeps tickling me. Just then, a

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girl brushed past his desk on her way to the

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water fountain. She had barely made contact with the sight

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of Harvey's arm, but he was laughing like she had

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just taken a feather duster to his toes. Harvey said

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his teacher, who had now lost all of her patience,

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please go to the office and see if her parents

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can pick you up early, or at the very least,

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see if they can drop off a dry pair of pants.

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Up until now, Harvey's parents thought he had been putting

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some of this on. It didn't seem like it was

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possible for anyone to be that ticklish. But after watching

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their son start begging his seatbelt to stop tickling him,

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they knew something was up. We're going straight to the

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doctor's office, Harvey. It's like you've got some kind of

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tickle disease or something. Harvey felt relieved when the doctor

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explained that there was no such thing as a tickle disease. So, Harvey,

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are you telling me that until a few weeks ago,

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you had never been tickled, Like, not even a little

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well kouchie cuci coo as a baby, Like not even

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being pinned to the ground by an older brethren getting

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tickled until you tell them it's becoming hard to breathe,

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like not even having an ant crawl up your pants,

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making you realize for the first time that you have

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a ticklish rumpus. Harvey shook his head. Doc, people have

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always tried tickling me, but no one could ever find

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my tickler spot. But now my tickler spot is all

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of me, and it doesn't take much for him to

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feel it either, added his mother. This became obvious to

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the doctor as she watched Harvey get tickled by her stethoscope.

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Doc cut it out, Cut it out, begged Harvey the tickles.

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The doctor sat back on her stool. Well, the only

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thing that would explain this is that your body is

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releasing years and years worth of tickle energy. Most people

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release their tickle energy gradually from the time their babies.

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But because you had never been tickled before, you've allowed

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all that energy to build up inside of you. Once

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you finally found your tickler spot, it was like opening

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the floodgates. Opening the flood gates, Harvey asked. The doctor

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thought carefully about how to explain this to a kid.

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Think about the recess bell at school. If the doors

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don't open when they're supposed to, the children will start

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crowding around. The longer the wait, the more children that

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will start to gather. Some children will even start pushing.

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Eventually the doorway becomes so jampacked that when the door's

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finally open, the kids go pouring out. This actually sounded

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like good news to Harvey. So as soon as all

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the built up tickle energy gets out, everything will go

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back to normal. The doctor waited for Harvey to stop laughing.

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The floor had just started tickling his feet. Unfortunately, it

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may not work like that, Harvey. Kids always remember the

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feeling of rushing outside for recess. After they've run through

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the doors once, they'll want to run through them every time.

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Your body may very well start to think this extreme

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ticklishness is normal now. Harvey tried to imagine a lifetime

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of getting tickled by everything. Laughing during his first kiss,

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giggling during a meeting with his company's top boss. And

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what if he chuckled while trying to comfort a friend

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whose goldfish had just run away from home. Lydia had

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been right. There was absolutely nothing funny about getting tickled.

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But if there was one thing he knew, it was

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that kids will stop running through recess doors as soon

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as a teacher shows up to yell at them. Don't worry, doc,

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he said, mid laugh. All the have to do is

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find a teacher who can yell at the tickled energy

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before it pushes its way through the doors. The doctor

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gave him the number of a kid who had once

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dealt with a similar problem, only with sneezing. This kid,

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On their way to his house, the two friends tried

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to decide what would be worse, never ending sneezes or

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non stop laughing. Nothing funny about either of those things,

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the two agreed. Elliott lived in a very tall house

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near the top of a very steep street. There were

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exactly thirty five steps up to his front door, which

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to the kids felt like thirty five steps too many. Man,

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we are really at a shape, said Lydia, huffing as

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she knocked on the door. Elliott answered quickly since he'd

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been expecting them. Hey, so, which one of you has

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the sneezing problem? Lydia pointed to Harvey, who was giggling

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because a leaf had just fallen on his shoulder. It's

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actually a laughing problem. Well, really more of a tickling problem.

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It looked like Elliot was now taking a moment in

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his head to the side of non stop laughing was

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better or worse than non stop sneezing. Well, guys, the

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first thing I tried was to use mind control power.

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I closed my eyes and repeated these words over and over.

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I will not sneeze, I will not sneeze. I'm not

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allergic to everything. I will not sneeze. Harvey couldn't believe

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how easy that sounded. Wow, dude, thank you so much.

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You just made my day. Walking back down those thirty

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five steps in the really steep street, Lydia wondered why

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this couldn't have been explained over a phone call. That night,

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Harvey stood in the middle of his room and closed

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his eyes. I will not laugh. I will not laugh.

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Not everything is ticklish, I will not laugh. As Elliot

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had suggested, Harvey repeated these words over and over until

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he was too tired to continue. In the morning, Harvey

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jumped out of his bed, excited to see if he

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was back to his old self. Unfortunately, his toothbrush made

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his teeth tickle, so back he and Lydia went to

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Elliott's house. Who builds a house on such a steep hill?

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Complained Lydia halfway up the thirty five steps. Elliott did

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not look surprised to see them back. Didn't work. Huh,

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didn't think it would certainly didn't work for me. Harvey looked, confused.

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What I thought you said, that's what fixed your sneezing.

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Elliott shook his head. Naw, I said, that was the

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first thing I tried. It definitely wasn't the thing that

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fixed my sneezing Again, Lydia wished this all could have

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been shared over a phone call or a text message.

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What really did it, continued, Elliott, was finding something to

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distract the brain from sneezing. You've got to give your

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brain a different to work on, so it's not constantly

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doing the thing you wanted to stop doing. This made

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really great sense to Harvey. When he was little, he

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remembered getting a really bad paper cut on his finger.

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That thing stung, but after dropping a heavy rock on

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his toe, he forgot all about the paper cut. Elliott,

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thank you so much. You just saved me from a

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lifetime of ticklishness. Like what would I have done if

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someone entered me in to try not to laugh contest?

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Harvey walked away feeling optimistic. Lydia walked away, hoping she'd

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never again have to walk up a steep hill in

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thirty five steps. To Harvey, this new solution sounded brilliant

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and certainly more reasonable than just closing his eyes and

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telling his brain that he wasn't going to be ticklish anymore.

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But for the life of him. He couldn't think of

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what he was going to do to distract his mind

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from the tickles. Everything Lydia kept suggesting sounded painful. What

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if I stomp on your foot really hard? No, Lydia, Okay,

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Well what if I put you in a bathtub filled

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with pinchy crabs? No, Lydia, Well then you're just gonna

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have to Lyddy had paused to swat a mosquito on

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her shoulder. That's it, cried Harvey. Lyddia looked at him,

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but Harvey, I didn't finish telling you what it was. No,

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said Harvey. The mosquito bite. That's it. I need an

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itchy bug bite to distract me from the ticklishness. That

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will be my teacher, Standing and yelling at the recessed doors,

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Lydia raised an eyebrow. Huh. Harvey didn't have time to

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explain to his friend about the floodgates. He needed to

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go find himself another mosquito. Together, they walked all over

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looking for bugs. They found plenty of bugs that don't bite,

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but none of the kind that do bite. Funny how

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when you don't want to get bitten, you get bitten,

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and when you do want to get bitten the bugs,

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just leave you alone. Lady had made one last plug

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for one of her earlier suggestions. It's not too late

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to try the bathtub filled with pinchy crabs. You won't

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be able to think about anything else with all those

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claws clamping down on your skin. Harvey started running toward

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a woman who was sitting on a park bench. Lady,

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there's a mosquito on your shoulder. Don't move. The woman

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looked happy that someone was coming over to smack the

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bug for her, but then she watched as Harvey carefully

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picked up the mosquito and put it on his own shoulder.

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Don't you be hogging all the bug bites, lady, Save

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some for the rest of us. At first, it felt

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ticklish having a mosquito standing on his shoulder, but within

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seconds he started to feel the itch. Ah, how nice

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it feels to be itchy. Harvey went to bed that

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night without laughing that his bed sheets were tickling his skin,

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but he did spend a lot of time scratching his

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shoulder in the morning. He didn't notice if his breakfast

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cereal was tickling his tongue or if his fresh pair

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of underwear was tickling his rumpus. He only noticed the

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itch at school. Lady had tried to sneak up behind

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Harvey to see if she could tickle him as a test.

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Harvey didn't laugh. Wow, so were you cured? No more

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extreme ticklishness. Harvey didn't look at happy as Lyddia had

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expected him to look. Well, yeah, he began, I haven't

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really noticed any ticklishness since yesterday. But now, Harvey paused,

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now everything feels itchy, like all over. It's like I

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took a bath in a tubful of poison. Ivy. Lydia

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noticed her friend was scratching the spot behind his ear

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where she had just tried tickling him with a feather.

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After school, Harvey begged Lydia to go back to Elliott's house. Seriously, Harvey,

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Elliott's house again, haven't you noticed that that guy's breath

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always smells like cough drops. Why don't you just try

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putting some lotion on your skin. Harvey explained that he

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had tried that, but the lotion just made him more itchy.

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So back up the really steep road and the thirty

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five steps they went. Again. Oh hey, guys, I wasn't

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expecting to see YouTube back so soon still got a

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bad case of the tickles. Harvey shook his head. No,

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your idea worked, so thanks for that, But now I

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seem to NonStop itchiness. Harvey had to wait for Elliott

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to get over a coughing fit. Sorry about that, guys,

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forgot to take my cough medicine today. Harvey and Lydia

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apologized they had not intended to bother Elliott while he

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was sick. Oh it's okay, guys, I've always got a cough.

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But anyways, Yeah, I should have warned you that whatever

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you use to stop the ticklishness ends up replacing the

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ticklishness as your new thing. I guess that's just how

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it works. Might have been better if you'd gone with

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something you don't mind having. Not sure why you chose itchiness,

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Lydia was trying to help Harvey stay calm. He looked

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like he was about to explode. Elliot, the reason I

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didn't think to go with something better than itchiness is

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because you didn't tell me that was going to take

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over as the new thing. Elliott coughed a few more times.

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Oh for sure, why do you think I've got this

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non stop cough? Now? The cough made my sneezes go away,

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but now I'm just coughing all the time. But don't worry.

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Harvey was really hoping Elliott was about to tell him

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there was something else he could try. I don't worry, Harvey,

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because you'll get used to it the end. That's the story.

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And here is your question of the week. If you

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had to choose between non stop ticklishness, NonStop sneezing, or

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having a cough that won't go away, which one would

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you choose? Thanks to Harvey, Elliott and Lydia and showed

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it to the following listeners. Ruby and Corey from Jacksonville, Florida,

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Emma and Ellie from Kelowna, BC, Claire and Grace from Alaska,

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Lily and Emmett from Pennsylvania, Jangshi from Switzerland, Calvin, Parker

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and West from San Clemente, California, win Flow, Alex Louis

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and their Chonkinader Cat Lady Honey Waffles from Ontario, Canada,

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Emerson from Maryland, Teddy and Madeline from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and

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William and Sidney from Toronto. I'll have more next time,

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so for now, thanks for listening and I'll catch you

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on the next one,