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Hello, everyone. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories and welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast.

Halloween is right around the corner and you know us. We love Halloween over here at Sparkle Stories.

And now you can do Halloween your own way. There are so many ways to celebrate.

When our kids were younger, we didn't do the traditional Halloweeny things.

We told our own stories and had our own celebrations, but there were always costumes.

Regardless, that night really can be magical almost like no other.

If only because most of the world or much of the world is in costume in the evening, walking about the world.

And there are lights all about and people are excited because we get to be a little something different in a costume, don't we?

So I've picked a story to help inspire and remind us of the magic, the potential for magic in that evening.

And I'm hoping that you can really slow down this Halloween because it gets real busy, doesn't it?

But I'm hoping that you can slow down and enjoy not only the preparation, but the actual evening.

Regardless of what you choose to do, whether that's walking about in a costume going from door to door and greeting your neighbors and friends, or that circling up with your own people and having a little gathering.

But simply being present with the magic and the fun and the newness of that night, because it really is like no other.

The story you're about to hear is one of our giant library of nearly 1,500 original stories at Sparkle Stories.

That's a lot of stories, a lot of adventures, a lot of wonderful tales, and you can enjoy all of them for free for a week.

Go to SparkleStories.com and click the button at the top that says start free trial.

Then you can listen to as much as you like anytime you like.

Okay, now onto the story I've picked, which is part one from the so many fairies Halloween collection. Enjoy.

Once upon a time there was a little boy named Henry who wished he were an elf.

He really wanted to be an elf more than anything.

Henry would sit under the birch trees in his backyard in the afternoons surrounded by billowy ferns and he would pretend that it was his home.

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