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Hello, my name's Charlie from Portaballo, New Zealand, and I want a story about a wagon, a magic candy cat, and Mike want to find, please.

Thank you.

Tonight's Make-Up Story is a request from a boy named Charlie, who lives in Portobello, New Zealand,

and who turned four years old two days ago on April 9th.

And so we want to say, happy birthday, Charlie.

And Charlie asked for us to make up a story that includes a dragon, a microphone, and a magic kitty cat.

Once upon a time, a long time ago,

there was a boy whose name was Charlie.

Charlie loved to dress up in pirate costumes.

And one day, there was a knock on Charlie's door, and the mailman gave

Charlie a box. The box said Charlie's name, and the first letter on the box was a C. And Charlie told his

mom that they needed to open up the box. And Charlie got a butter knife, and he and his mom opened up the box.

Inside the box, there was a real pirate costume. It had a pirate hat. It had an eye patch for one eye, it had pirate boots, and it had all sorts of pirate clothes.

It even came with a pretend parrot.

Charlie was so happy, so he told his mom they needed to dress up like a pirate right away.

Well, Charlie put on the pirate clothes with his mom helping only a little bit,

and after the pirate clothes were on, Charlie told his mom they needed to go to a playground

so that they could pretend to be on a pirate ship.

Well, Charlie's mom said that was so important.

So they went to a playground and Charlie also brought a snack with him.

When they were at the playground, Charlie went on a pretend boat,

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