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My name is Anne Louise. I'm almost five. And I live in Asheville, North Carolina.

I would like a story about a pig, a tornado, and a giant, giant house.

Tonight's make-up story is a request from a girl named Anne Louise,

who lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and who's going to turn five years old in a couple of weeks on October 3rd. And so we want to wish an early happy birthday to

Anne Louise. But do you want to say happy birthday? Happy birthday, Anne Louise. Good job.

And Anne Louise asked for us to make up a story that includes a pig, a tornado, and a giant,

giant house.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a girl whose name was Anne Louise.

Anne Louise grew up in a family that was a little bit different from other people.

All of the people in Anne Louise's family were only about as big as pinkies, your little finger.

And Anne Louise's mom was about three inches tall, about as tall as like a gerbil or a mouse or something like that.

And Anne Louise was only two inches tall.

She was like, yeah, bud.

Are these people?

They were regular people. Like they had regular people arms and people faces and stuff like that, but Anne

Luis and our whole family were really, really small. And Louise was only about as tall as like

grass. And so Anne Louise and her parents used to live

in a teensy-tiny house that was in the backyard of the mayor of Asheville, North Carolina. And in the

backyard, there was like, they lived in kind of a popsicle stick house,

and the popsicle stick house didn't have to be so big since they were so little.

And when Anne-Louise wanted to go to school,

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