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Three Friends and an Elephant, an adaptation of a classic fable written for you by Daniel Hines.

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Three Friends and an Elephant.

Once upon a time in a little pocket of deepest Africa, three friends were

chilling in the water of a great big puddle they called their pond. They were an unlikely

group, but they had been friends for a long time, and they got along like a house on fire,

which sounds like a bad thing, but actually

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