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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, March 10th, 2020. Now yesterday, we heard the first half of the story of the selfish giant about how he built a big wall around his garden so the children couldn't come in

and play so that he could keep

that garden all to himself. After that happened, after he did that, spring never came to his garden,

but his heart melted when he saw a small little boy crying because he was too small to get up

into a tree. After this, the giant knocked down the wall that was around his garden

and invited the children to come and play there every day.

So that's exactly what happened.

Years passed, and the giant realized that the most beautiful thing in his garden

was not the flowers and not the beautiful peach trees when they

were full of blossoms. Instead, the most beautiful part of his garden were the children that would come

and play every day. The giant loved these children and they loved him. But the giant realized

that there was one child that did not

come back to the garden. That little boy who had originally melted the heart of the selfish

giant. The little boy that was too small to climb up into the branches by himself, he never

returned to the garden. The giant asked the other children if they knew where he was or why he wasn't coming back.

And they said that they didn't know him.

In fact, before that day, they had never seen him before.

The giant was sad.

But time passed.

And soon the giant wasn't able to play with the children anymore.

But he still took

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