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Instagram teen accounts with automatic protections on who can contact teenagers and the content they can see.

Instagram teen accounts have contact limits on by default, so teenagers get messages from people

they know, not strangers, and default content settings.

Plus, teenagers under 16 can't change these default settings without parental approval,

so parents can help teenagers connect safely.

Learn more at Instagram.com slash teen accounts. Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good, and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

I write and read all the stories you hear on

nothing much happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim. We give to a different charity

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This is a form of brain training.

We're conditioning a response that will improve over time.

All you need to do is listen.

I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

Our story tonight is called the Garden Center, or the left-handed snail,

and it's a story about a quiet corner of the plant nursery,

where a slow-moving community is coming together. It's also about push-brooms and dropped leaves,

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