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Tonight's Makeup is a story that I made up for my kids, Jonah and Jesse.

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There's no cost to request a story, and we always love hearing your ideas. Once upon a time, a long time ago, Jonah and Jesse

convinced their parents to take them on a kayaking adventure. The destination they chose was

Ruby Island, a small island on Lake Wanaka in New Zealand. Ruby Island is a fairly small island of three and a half hectares.

That's about the size of eight football fields. And it's so close to the city of Wanaka that it

gets plenty of visitors, especially in the summer. People like to go there on boats, jet skis or

kayaks from Wanaka. and some brave souls have even

swum to it. It has a jetty for parking boats, some pebbly beaches, a picnic table, and even a gas-operated

barbecue, all of which is to say that as they set out in their kayaks, Jonah and Jesse were

expecting a pretty normal trip

and an uneventful picnic on a beautiful, if not terribly mysterious island. Boy, were they

mistaken. About a week before the kayaking trip, a tourist visiting Wanannica had lost a ring that was very special

because it had belonged to the tourist's grandfather. Dismayed at the loss, he had put up signs

at all the boat rental shops offering a reward for its return. On the morning of the kayak trip,

when Jonah saw that sign, he knew just what he had to do.

He had received a metal detector for his birthday, and this was the perfect opportunity to use it.

He would be a hero, a real treasure hunter, and earn a reward.

To protect the metal detector from getting wet, Jonah and Jesse

wrapped it in a big black trash bag and sealed the end with duct tape. Jesse put the duct tape in

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