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🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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11-year-old Ruby asked residents at a nursing home to list their three wishes. What they said - and what she did next - surprised everyone.
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0:00.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at W-B-U-R Boston. |
0:09.0 | Welcome to Kind World. |
0:10.0 | I'm Yasminamer. |
0:11.0 | And I'm Andrea Aswahue. Now we're officially on break. We're working on some great |
0:16.4 | stories for our new season which starts in October but today we have a special bonus |
0:21.3 | episode for you. Yep and fall is just around the corner and it's hard to believe it's already August. |
0:27.0 | I know tell me about it. |
0:28.2 | Thankfully, there's still time to do all sorts of fun summer things. |
0:32.1 | It's been all weekend staycations and backyard barbecues for me |
0:35.6 | and I've loved every minute of it. |
0:37.8 | But Andrea, you have a big trip coming up. |
0:40.0 | Yeah, I'm looking forward to my trip to Scotland, |
0:42.8 | especially since I'm a huge Outlander fan. |
0:45.2 | You got me obsessed with that show. |
0:47.6 | I can't wait. |
0:49.0 | I mean, for many people, Summer is a time to unwind. But I want to tell you about one girl who |
0:54.8 | spends her time off doing really special things for other people. Her name is |
0:59.7 | Ruby Kate Chitzy and she she's from Harrison, Arkansas. |
1:03.7 | Ruby's a cheerful, thoughtful 11-year-old, |
1:06.8 | but she had a hard time back in elementary school. |
1:09.7 | Her mom Amanda thinks it's because Ruby isn't interested in the same kinds of things as her |
1:14.8 | classmates. And Ruby doesn't fit into that square box and she is not a dancer, she is not |
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