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Welcome back to the Stories Podcast.

This week we have an original story for you called Dropping the Ball.

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Hi, I'm Landon Wittsen and I host an episode of Who's Amazing Life, a Wondery Podcast

for Kids and Families.

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Enjoy the story.

When Joshua the Ball was born, he and his brothers and sisters were no bigger around

than the tip of your nose.

They were all perfectly round and they were each meant for something very special, though

they weren't allowed to know what that something was until it was their time to leave home

and find their place in the world.

Joshua was excited.

He was hoping to be the first one called.

He was still small, but he imagined that he could be a ball bearing or maybe a BB.

He could see it already, being loaded into a toy gun and knocking over ten cans in the

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