Welcome to Makeup Stories. My name is Emma. Go to Makeup Stories.com to join the MakeDup Stories Club.

Thank you.

My name is Jonah Moon, and I'm four years old.

I live in Toronto, and I want a story about a magical plant, a soldier, and a pirate.

Hello and welcome to MakeDup. I'm your host Amanda.

Did you know that kids from all over the world listen to MakeDup stories?

One of our listeners lives in Gabon on the continent of Africa.

Gabon is one of 13 countries that are located along the Earth's equator,

the imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemisphere.

Because of this, Gabon's climate is hot all year round.

If you would like to share a cool fact about your country,

you can have your grown-up email a voice recording to us

at make-up stories at gmail.com. Please include your first name, the name of your

country, and one cool fact about your country. Today's make-up is based on a request from Jonah Moon.

Jonah Moon is four years old. He lives in Toronto, Canada. He asked for a story about a magical plant, a

soldier, and a pirate. Thank you Jonah Moon for the awesome request, and we hope that you enjoy

the story. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big boy named Jonah Moon. Jonah Moon loved gardening,

and he had a deep interest in botany, which is the study of plants. He especially loved

to grow plants and observe how some of the plants he grew would have tiny little variations

from their parent plants. For example,

one of the child plants might have leaves that were slightly larger, or a slightly different

shape than the parent plants, or they might have flowers that were a slightly different color,

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