Hello and welcome back to LOLL Storytime, the Goofy Story Podcast for Kids.

Today's story is called Back in Time and features characters named after Eli and Arios.

Before we get started, I'd like to give a shout out to the following listeners.

Presley and Riker. Cameron.

Elliot and her little brother, Turner from Pennsylvania,

Natalie and Nathan, Neve P. and Abby B. from Texas. Alina. Toby and Jesse. Gabby, Catalina,

meatloaf, and figgy. Rowan from Cornwall. Zola, Weston, and Zander from San Carlos, California.

And Leonard from Quebec City as a surprise from his older sister Melody.

Happy birthday to Aaron, Killian, April. Happy belated birthday to Stella from your mom, dad, brother,

and puppies, Dixie and Charlie. Happy belated birthday to Naomi, your mom, dad, brother, and puppies, Dixie and Charlie.

Happy belated birthday to Naomi, who regularly listens to the show with her puffy dog toffee.

Happy sixth birthday to Angelique from Australia who listens with her mom, Amanda.

Happy 11th birthday to Rawlis from Belmont, Massachusetts, who listens with his sister Vivi and baby sister Colette.

Happy birthday to Fallon from Lincoln, Nebraska. And happy birthday to Sienna from Toronto,

who listens with her sister Nyla. Your parents mentioned they hope this podcast will inspire you to write some of your own stories, which would be great, because though I've been mentioning

it for ages, I'm hoping this will be the year of the LOL story time writing contest.

Details to come.

Anyway, more shoutouts next time,

but for now, let's get into the story.

This is the story of an almost perfect year for a boy named Eli. Okay, perfect might be a stretch,

but there really wasn't anything he'd have done differently. Most years, there were plenty of

things he wished he could redo. His best friend Arios was no stranger to wanting to take things back.

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