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Hey tailblazers, I'm Tessa Flannery, subbing in for Rebecca Cunningham, and this is Girl

Tales, a kids podcast of feminist stories for a new generation. Before we get started, I'd

like to wish a very happy birthday to Eliza in North Dakota. Eliza, everyone at Girl Tales

hopes your birthday is awesome. Thank you so much for listening to Girl Tales.

Grownups, if you would like to hear your child's name at the top of our next tale, head

to patreon.com, slash Girl Tales, and donate today. Now on to our episode. This is Nareen

and the Lemon Grove, by Susan Maadi Durage. Enjoy!

Welcome to our little lemon grove in the hills of Palestine. I'm Lea Moon, and I was planted

in this grove hundreds of years ago. City owns the lemon grove now, and every day she and

her granddaughter Nareen come out here and pick lemons of me and the other trees. Until

one day, one day, about a month ago, something happened, and the lemons started disappearing.

Listen, you'll hear the story. I don't know why the lemons are not coming out this year.

I used to pick hundreds of lemons from my trees, and sell them at the market. And now I can

barely find any. I don't know, city. It's very strange. Do you think someone is stealing

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