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Anyway, here's a preview of this very special episode. In the middle of the countryside among the rolling fields of grass and wheat and barley,

where sheep and cows grazed peacefully and brooks trickled through clutches of leafy

woodland stood two red brick cottages.

They were the only two houses for miles and miles, and the nearest town to them was a long drive away.

So it was pretty lucky for Kitty, who lived in one of the cottages,

that her best friend Ross lived in the other.

Maybe they became best friends because they lived next door to each other,

but if you asked her, Kitty thought there was more to it than that.

As far as she was concerned, it was more like an act of fate than of mere chance that Ross's parents had decided to move into the house next door to her.

Because from the moment she and Ross met,

they knew they were going to be the best of friends.

They loved doing all the same things, climbing trees, building

forts, playfighting with sticks. They liked watching the ducklings paddling down the river and they liked putting up a tent in the garden and listening to the hoops the owls made to each other through the night.

But most of all, liked sending messages tied to the

ends of balloons. Ross's dad kept a tank of helium in his garage and every now and then he'd drive Kitty and Ross into town

to buy a little pouch of biodegradable blooms. Then they'd blow them up, draw faces on them in black marker pen, and let them bob about the ceiling

of the garage, like a crowd of multi-colored funny-looking people.

After that, they'd take a couple of the balloons and tie little pieces of card onto the

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