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Thanks. Enjoy the episode. With our powers combined. Once upon a time, on the busy banks of the Amazon River, there lived a hapless hedgehog named Holly. Now, I know that word hapless sounds like she's unhappy, or that maybe she's all

out of haps, but that's not it at all. Hapless basically means unlucky, and that's what Holly the

Hedgehog was more than anything. Unlucky. She'd snag her sheets with her spines and shred them when she slept. She'd go to hug her

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