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Hi Rebecca Sheer here. We are just weeks away from the official start of our fifth season

of circle round. Whether you're new to the show or you've been with us from the very

beginning, thank you for keeping circle round going and for sending your emails, voice

memos and coloring pages and for supporting our home station, WBUR. You are the reason

we make this podcast and we can't wait for you to hear our new episodes. In the meantime,

we're mixing it up today and sharing an episode of Stories Podcast, a show featuring

everything from classic fairy tales to original stories for kids written by Dan Hines and

performed by Amanda Weldon. This story is called The Grass is Always Greener.

Once upon a time in a grassy yard in a grassy suburb, a bunny named Beverly was enjoying

her breakfast. She had served herself her favorite meal. Fresh grass, eaten right out of

the ground. It was green and sweet and delicious, at least if you were a bunny. And the best

part was that it grew absolutely everywhere. Green grass, she sang to herself as she

ate. Green spring grass, I love, love, love my green spring grass. As she ate, idly

scratching at one floppy ear with a long foot, her friend the badger came trundling out

of his whole. He had once been a fierce old beast, the terror of the local squirrels, but

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