Welcome back to kids short stories. Today's story is brought to us by one of our friends

Gera. Hey Gera! She left a review on her Apple podcast with her idea for a story.

I'm so excited for this one. It's going to be a good one. Are you ready?

Me too. Let's go. One cloudy morning, Kiara was doing all over chores that were really important to do on the ranch.

Have you ever heard of a ranch before?

It's kind of like another word for farm, but ranch is where the cowboys live.

It's out in the country.

And Kiara lived on a ranch and had lots of animals that live there too, like horses and cows and sheep and goats, all kinds of animals that she and her family had to help take care of.

And every morning there were lots of chores that she had to do to help clean and help take care of everything. Well today's chore was she had to go into the barn way up in the loft of the barn and clean out all the old things that were up there.

You see, no one had been up there in a very long time,

and so there were a lot of stuff that just need probably need to get

thrown away or just cleaned up. So her job was to go up there and make it nice again.

So while she was up there it was really dusty and really dirty.

Keira couldn't help but cough because it was so dusty.

Oh my gosh.

And as she started digging around, she found a whole bunch of really cool things.

She found an old rusty steering wheel from a tractor.

She found an old wooden clock.

And she, wait a second, what is this?

She found a tiny envelope with a letter inside that it looks like it's never been open before.

That's really strange for that to be up here.

And she wanted to see what's inside. Should she open it? Yes! So Kiara carefully opened up this letter, this envelope,

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