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And now we're ready for today's story.

Tonight's Make-Up Story is a request from a four-year-old listener whose name is

Samantha, and Samantha asked for us to make up a story that includes butterflies and

bubbles, and we're also going to add a water tower and a fishy to the story. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a four-year-old girl whose name was Samantha.

Samantha and her family lived in a regular house, but one day Samantha told her mom and her dad

that it was time for them to move onto a houseboat

that floated in a lake.

And her mom and dad said that that was a good idea.

So Samantha packed up her things in her suitcase and her dad and mama packed up their

things and they went in their car and drove

all the way to the lake. When they got to the lake, they saw that there was a big boat,

and on top of the boat there was a whole house, and Samantha said that they were going to

live in that boat house to have a special adventure. And her parents said

okay. Well, they got on the boathouse and it was floating in the water. The boat house was really big.

It had a bedroom upstairs that Samantha decided she was going to share with her parents. And

downstairs it had a room with toys

and a lot of the toys there were like unicorn toys there were some bubbles that you could blow

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