How Ben Ventor The Boy Inventor Deals with Sickness

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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: How Ben Ventor The Boy Inventor Deals with Sickness

Ben spent many a day trying to fake his way through sickness. He tried the thermometer under the light bulb once, but he melted the earpiece. He tried to cough fiercely, but only ended up giving himself a sore throat.

     It became so bad that when his sister Fran was actually sick, he did not believe her; believing instead, that she had become better at faking sickness than he had.

It wasn't that he wanted to miss out on school. It definitely wasn't that he wanted to be sick. What was probably the most accurate was that his mom was quite possibly the best nurse on the planet.

Staying home sick meant a lot of tender loving care. It meant lots of "oh, honey, I hope you feel better."  It also meant that Ben's mom would be saying his personal favorite: "Ben lay back down. Let me get it for you."

    So, when Ben came down the stairs actually feeling bad, he was surprised by his mom's reaction.

    "It isn't going to work, Ben," she said, when he sniffed his nose. "Fran already told me you had a spelling test today.  You are going to school."

    "That rat," Ben said about Fran. "I do have a spelling test. But, I am also not feeling well."

    This explanation had little effect on his mother’s reaction to his sickness. He still ended up having to go to school. And, he still felt bad throughout the day; especially during the spelling test. The good news was it gave him an idea for his latest invention.

    The next day, Ben came down the stairs feeling worse than he did before. His mom was waiting at the bottom looking more skeptical than the day before.

    "Don't even say anything, Mom.  I am ready to prove to you that I am sick," said Ben, holding up what looked like a blue circular sticker.

    "I'm waiting," his mom said, already convinced that Ben was about to trick her.

     Ben put the sticker on his head for exactly four seconds. He then peeled it off of his head and put it on his mom's forehead. She immediately began to sniffle and cough.

    "Oh gosh, Ben.  That is awful," she said, pulling the blue dot off of her head. Instantly, she felt better. "What did you do?" She asked.

    "I call it the sick swap dot," Ben said, showing it to his mom on the end of his finger. "You just put it on the sick person for four seconds, and whoever wears it next can feel exactly what the sick person is feeling."

     "Will it work with any sick symptoms?" His mom asked.

     "What do you mean?"

     "Well, I can see it works for cold symptoms, but what about if someone is dying?"

     "Yeah, it should work then too," answered Ben, glad his mom was taking an interest in one of his inventions.

    "This could help a lot of people, Ben."

    "I know, Mom. Imagine how many kids will finally be able to convince their parents they are actually sick."

How the swap sick dot is used today:  Ben's mom was right. Student doctors everywhere learn what it feels like to have different symptoms for different diseases. Regular doctors use the sick swap dot to find out what is wrong with people who can't talk. Kids use it to make their brothers sick when they don't want to be anymore.

How much did the sick swap dot sell for:  110 million dollars

What did Ben buy with the money:  He bought his school a new indoor playground with a skate park, a racquetball court, a basketball court and a rock climbing wall.




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How Ben Ventor the Boy Inventor Handles Secrets!

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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: How Ben Ventor the Boy Inventor Handles Secrets

Ben heard his sister whispering to Peter. The problem was he could not hear what she said exactly. All he heard was lots of mumbling and the word "Ben."

    "Mom," Ben called across the house. "Fran is talking about me to Peter again."

    "Mom," Fran said, beginning to imitate Ben. "Fran's is talking about me."  She threw in an extra crying sound just to bug Ben even more. "How do you know I wasn't complementing you?"

    "Because I have never heard you say a nice thing about me ever," Ben replied with his masterful deductive reasoning skills.

    "I've told you how nice your breath smells in the morning," she said sarcastically.

    "Funny," Ben said with a grumpy and unappreciative smile.             

Ben did not really think her comment was funny, but it did give him an idea for another invention.

    Three days later, Ben was sitting in his bedroom listening to a teeny tiny radio that looked like a hearing aid in his ear.

     "Ben, thinks he is so cool, Peter." Ben's eyebrows went up in excitement, happy to see his invention was working.  "But, he is not.  In fact, sometimes I have to wonder if we are related."

    Now, Ben was faced with a tough decision. Should he go downstairs and tell Fran that he was listening when she said what she said, or should he not say anything and listen to her forever more? 

     Tough choice.

    "You don't have to wonder if we are related, Fran," said Ben bounding down the stairs. "You were just unfortunate not to have inherited any of the good looks or charm from Mom and Dad like myself."

    Fran stopped what she was doing and looked at Ben seriously. "How did you know I said that?" she asked, a little outraged.

    "This," Ben said, turning sideways so she could see the little radio in his ear.

    "What is that," Ben's dad said excitedly as he came into the room. If there was anyone who was into Ben's inventions, it was his dad.

    "It's a hear-it-all." Ben said, pulling it out of his ear and handing it to his dad.

    "It just makes you hear better?" His dad said, unimpressed. "I hate to break it to you, but they already have one of those."

    "It does make you hear better," agreed Ben, "but the invention part is that it allows you to hear anything anyone says about you from where ever they are in the whole world."

    "So, if grandpa says I am a creep in Florida and I am in Utah, I would hear every word of it?" His dad asked to clarify.

    "That is exactly right," said Ben. "In fact someone is saying something about me now."

    Ben looked down to focus in on what was being said. He soon looked concerned.  "I guess my teacher at school was not nearly as pleased with me as I always thought she was," Ben said, now visibly upset.

     His dad caught on to Ben being upset.  He gave Ben a comforting smile then walked outside the back door.  It was puzzling at first until on his hear-it all, Ben heard his dad whisper, "Ben is a brilliant inventor, and I love him."

How the hear-it-all is used today:  Police listen to what the bad guys say about the person that is missing, and then find the missing person quickly. Moms and Dads listen to what their bosses say about them, and then quickly fix the problem. Kids listen to what the girl they like says about them and then quickly run away.

How much did Ben sell the hear-it-all for: 313 million dollars

What did Ben do with the money:  He bought his mom a working 30 person spa for his back yard. Every day his mom would go out there for a mud bath, a sauna, and daily massages.




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How Ben Ventor the Boy Inventor Deals with Laundry!

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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: How Ben Ventor the Boy Inventor Deals with Laundry!

“Put away your clothes!” Ben’s dad said.  Of course, he was under the direction of Ben’s mom.  But, for the moment, Ben’s dad was the man in charge. And, if the kids did not want to be in trouble, they were going to have to listen to dad.

     “What are you doing?” Ben’s dad asked as he watched Ben stuffing the shirts in the drawer.  “You are going to make those wrinkly.”

     Ben looked at his dad confused.  He understood that he needed to put the clothes away, but he did not understand what that had to do with the clothes having wrinkles.

     “If you put the clothes in the drawer wrinkly and balled up, they will come out with wrinkles all over them.  You are going to have to fold them first.”

     It is not that Ben minded folding or the putting away laundry.  What he minded was that if he had to fold and put away, it would take twice as long.  Not to mention, he was responsible for putting away  Noah ’s laundry because Noah shared a room with Ben.  So, Ben felt particularly tortured by folding and putting away double the laundry of Fran every other day.  Ben’s mom said that Fran and he just had different jobs.  Where Ben had to help with  Noah ’s laundry, Fran had to help with putting away the dishes.  But, that did not matter to Ben.  What mattered was in this very moment, he had to do twice as much work as Fran, and it was killing him.  As was usual with Ben, this terrible situation gave him his idea for his next great invention. 

     Lucky for Ben, the laundry that needed to be folded and put away usually came out every other day.  This gave him just enough time to perfect the invention.

     “Time to put laundry away,” Ben’s mom said two days later as she was bringing out two laundry baskets; one for Fran and Ben each to put away.  She plopped the baskets down in front of Ben and Fran, who were right in the middle of Wednesday afternoon tv. 

“Now,” his mom said forcefully because no one seemed to be moving.

     “My pleasure,” said Ben with a giant grin on his face.  This was not his usual response. In fact, Fran and her mom nearly broke their necks as they took such a strong double take to see who this alien creature was.  Fran’s double take at Ben was because she knew that smart aleck remarks did not go over well with their mom.  His mom, on the other hand, had jerked around because … well smart aleck remarks did not go over well with her.

     “Don’t get smart alecky with me, Ben,” she said sternly.

     “I wasn’t mom,” Ben said, backing down a little.  “It will be my pleasure because I get to try out my new invention.”

     Ben pulled out of his pocket what looked like a metal bottle cap with a black button on top.  He held it over his basket of laundry and pressed the button.  Green lighting seemed to shoot from underneath the bottom of the bottle cap and run completely through the laundry below.

     “Did you just electrocute your laundry,” Fran asked, worried that her mom was really not going to like this invention.

     “Yes, kind of,” Ben answered.  “But, for a good reason. I’ll show you what this electrical charge does to the laundry.”

     Ben picked up the white church shirt he had on the top.  He then threw it up into the air and caught it again.  But, something happened to the shirt while it was in the air.

“The clothes fold themselves in mid-air now, before they land again,” Ben said, holding up the perfectly folded dress shirt for his mom and Fran to see.  “You can throw them across the room, into a suitcase, or into a drawer.  They always land perfectly folded.”

“A mothers dream,” Ben’s mom said, really impressed by it.

“Will it fold you if I throw you in the air,” asked Fran grumpily.

“No, Fran,” Ben answered, “it only works with clothes.

From then on, Ben and Fran’s folding jobs became much easier.

How is the foldomatic used today:  Clothes factories fold all of their clothes with it.  Parents use it to fold clothes a lot faster.  And, Ben eventually changed it so that it folded a different paper airplane every time you threw a new piece of electrocuted paper in the air. 

  

How much did the foldomatic sell for: 210 million dollars

What did Ben buy with the money:  He made an Imax movie theatre in his family’s back yard.  

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How Ben Ventor the Boy Inventor Deals with Vegetables!

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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: Ben Ventor Deals with Vegetables

The inspiration for his next major invention came to his mind at the dinner table, when for the 413^th time his family had broccoli as the vegetable.  He hated  broccoli.  Mom always said, “One bite for however old you are.”  This worked well for his younger brother and sister, but not so much for him.

“But, mom,” Ben protested, nightly.  “In nine bites there will be no more squash on my plate.”

Without showing any emotion, his mom would simply smile and say, “One bite for every year, Ben.  No arguing.”

Sometimes it made Ben angry that his Mom was consistent in her parenting.  At least with Dad, he could reason.  With, Mom, what she said was the law and never changed.

Lucky for Ben, he was really good at making inventions.  So, that night before falling asleep, he imagined the flavor fork.  The next day, when he woke up, he began to work.  By dinner time, he had a working model of his invention and was ready to try it out on his mom’s disgusting  broccoli.

     “Mom, I’ll have two helpings today,” Ben said, with a bit of pride.

     Immediately, his mom looked at him suspiciously and said, “Nice try, Ben. The dog is outside already.  You won’t be able to scoop it over to him.”

     “I know mom.  I just want to give it a try again.”

     “The last time you tried to eat it,” chimed in Ben’s dad, “you made throw up noises the whole way through.”

     “I’m a changed man,” said Ben, again with confidence.

     His mom, now wanting in some way to call Ben out on his lie, walked over and heaped two massive spoonfuls on to the middle of his plate.

     Before long, Ben’s parents had forgotten about Ben’s spoonfuls of gross and had gone about there business.

     Ben secretly put his mouth close to his flavor fork and whispered, “banana split.”

     Ben looked at his fork and waited as the light on the handle blinked red two times, then turned green.  Almost in slow motion, Ben poked the  broccoli  with the fork and brought it up to his lips.

     Before he tasted it, his nose had already taken over, and the  broccoli smelled like the inside of an ice cream shop.  Ben threw the first forkful into his mouth and said, “Wow, Mom this is so good.”

     His mom and dad looked over at Ben and waited for the punch line to his joke.

     “Seriously,” Ben said, shaking his head, “so good.”

     With that, Ben popped in another forkful of  broccoli into his mouth.

     “Our little man’s taste buds are growing up so fast,” his dad said, becoming a little teary eyed.

Ben inhaled the rest of his  broccoli, and nearly gave his mom a heart attack in the process.  That night at dinner, when Ben asked for seconds of the squash, his dad looked like he was going to burst with pride.

“Can you not taste this stuff?” asked Fran, who was usually pretty cranky.

     From that moment on, all of Ben’s meals went down a lot easier.  His green beans became cinnamon toast.  His broccoli was always banana splits.  And, his onions became gummy bears.  It was truly a dream come true for Ben.

     But soon Ben got tired of everything being sweet.  In fact he almost became sickened by it.  In fact, because Ben became so bored with the sweet tastes,he began turning sweet things into vegetables.  His apple pie became corn.  His candy bar became peas.  And, his whipped cream became salad.

How the flavor fork is used today:  It is now used in every school lunchroom across the country.  Kids are happy to clean their plates of all of the vegetables.

Flavor fork sale price: 330 million dollars. 

What Ben did with the money:  He bought a wooden dock at the 


Manatee Bay Marina.  He also bought his first 120 foot Yacht, 


complete with an on deck pool and hot tub.






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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: Ben Ventor's New Pen Invention

Short Bedtime Stories Presents: Ben Ventor's New Pen Invention

The Ventors were definitely different than a lot of other families. They loved museums more than they loved movies, tv, or even theme parks.

    When they took the clan to the museum, the kids always had a blast. They all loved learning about new things. Museums had the distinction from school in that museums had a lot of hands on learning.  Whereas, school was all about staying in your seats and learning from a book or a lecture.

    All of the Ventors had their very favorite parts of the museums. Ben's dad loved the Egyptian mummies. His mom loved the health portions where you learned about how the brain works. Fran liked the nature parts where you learn about animals and their natural habitats.

    "Dinosaurs!" Peter exclaimed at his very favorite part of the museum.

    But, Ben had a favorite part all his own. His favorite part by far was the space part of the museum.  Today, they had seen how astronomers had found planets in times past and how astronomers were using infrared light to understand what planets were made of. What caught Ben's attention more than anything on this particular day though was the weight things weighed on other planets.

    “Feel this?” asked the museum guide, handing Ben a little gray and white rock.  “This is how much your hand weighs on earth. Now feel this."

    Ben picked up a second rock which was significantly lighter.

    "That is how much your hand weighs on Pluto," explained the museum guide, getting as excited as Ben was. "Now feel this final rock."

    Ben picked up the last rock and was surprised he could barely lift it off of the table.

    "This is how much your hand weighs on Jupiter," he said taking the rock from Ben. "On Jupiter, the gravity is way stronger than on earth because Jupiter is way bigger than earth."

    This was absolutely fascinating to Ben, and it sent him on his path to his next great invention.

     The next day, Ben came down the stairs having pulled an all-nighter. He handed a paper to his sister.

    "Here, Fran," he said, putting it on top of her cereal.

    "If you just put some kind of gross scab dropping paper on my cereal I'm gonna ... "

     "Save it," Ben said, holding up his hand. He then wrote something on the paper and put it back on Fran's side of the table.

    "Holy cow," she said trying to lift the paper off of the table.  "What kind of lame-o paper did you make."

    "The paper is not the invention," Ben said showing Fran the marker he was holding.  "I invented a weight marker."

    "What does a weight marker do? Make people fat?" asked Fran, sarcastically.

    "Whatever number I write on something makes its weight whatever weight I wrote down."

    Fran still looked confused.

    "Say you’re out camping," Ben said, picking up a toothpick. "Then you need something very heavy to weigh down your tent because the wind is getting strong."  Ben paused for a moment to write a number on the toothpick.  "Now, pick up the toothpick."

     "It's too heavy," Fran said not able to lift it.

    "That is because I wrote 173 on it, so it weighs 173 pounds now."

     "Do a lot of people need things to get heavier?" asked Fran very skeptical.

     "Watch this," Ben said collaring Peter and bringing him into the room. Ben wrote a big “0” on Peter’s head. Ben then pushed up on Peter’s chin and Peter floated to the ceiling as he now only weighed one pound.

How the weight marker is used today: Astronauts use it to train in weightlessness. Police use it to make their prisoners weigh so much they can't move. Parents use it to move their kids, who are refusing to move, and to take heavy sleeping kids to bed easier.

How much did the weight marker sell for:  113 million dollars

What did Ben buy with the money:  He made it so that his room was turned into a jungle room where he traveled around by vines like Tarzan.




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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: Ben Ventor's Dazzling Paper Airplane Invention

           Ben Ventor's Dazzling Paper Airplane Invention

     “Mine went the farthest,” said Fran, proud of her long and pointy paper airplane.

     “That’s because you made a fast plane,” explained Ben.  “I made a trick plane.  Mine isn’t meant to go far.”

     “So,” countered Fran, “mine still went farther.”

     Ben wasn’t real sure how to argue with this line of logic.  On the one hand, she was right.  Hers had flown farther.  On the other hand, there was no attempt on his part to fly his farther.

     “Ok Fran, but mine did more tricks,” answering Ben, thinking for sure the argument had been won in his favor.

     “Not if you count flying the farthest as a trick,” Ben’s dad said with Peter resting up on his shoulders.

     Ben was not a fan of his dad jumping over to the girl’s side.  Ben was still having a hard time understanding why his dad would often side with Fran or his mom.  In Ben’s book, his dad was a boy and should therefore always side with the boys.

     “That is a pretty good trick, Fran,” Ben said, finally giving in to letting her have this small victory in order to crush her dreams soon.  “I’ll have a plane that can do an even better trick tomorrow.”

     Ben did not like getting beat at what he considered to be one of his greatest talents: paper airplane folding. 

     The next day, the family arrived at the park just after dinner.  It was a beautiful night, and everyone was feeling full from his mom’s dinner. They were all finally ready to relax.

     “Airplanes?” Peter asked, putting a paper airplane in his ear. 

     Ben could not have been more excited.  He did not want to brag, but he knew he had the best paper airplane of all, today.

     “Let’s do a contest for best paper airplane trick,” Ben said.

     Surprisingly, the family listened, and everyone besides Peter folded paper for the next five minutes.  Ben’s mom was first to her feet.  She let loose her plane and it did a complete loop back into her hands. 

     “Not bad, Carol,” said Ben’s dad, now at his feet ready to fly his own plane.  Ben’s dad threw his plane hard, and it did a long corkscrew for about 20 feet.

     Fran was next.  Before she flew her plane, she looked directly at Ben and gave him an evil eye.  Without even looking, she threw her plane sideways from her body.  The plane did a complete arc over her head, and landed directly in her outstretched left hand.

     “Yeah, Fran,” her mom said, proud of her daughter.

     “Holy cow, Fran!” her dad said, enthusiastic.

     Fran stuck her tongue out at Ben and said, “beat that,” as she sat back down.

     Because Peter was already burying his piece of paper in the sand, Ben would be the final contestant.  Ben, held back his arm and let his plane fly.  The plane flew about one foot and did a little flip.

     “That’s it,” Fran said, very happy she had clearly won this contest.

     Ben smiled and ran up to his plane.  Just before he arrived at his plane, he jumped into the air and grabbed the bottom of it. 

The plane held his weight. 

The plane began to move slowly at first, then quickly.  The plane flew in whatever direction Ben pointed his feet.  He went up high, down low, far away, and all the way back to his family where he landed.

     “Ta da!” Ben said, excitedly.

     His family just sat staring with their mouths open at Ben.

    

How the strong plane is used today:  as long as you have a license, you probably use this as your main mode of transportation.  Kids use a child version that only flies 5 feet high(Parents were worried about them flying to high).

How much did the strong plane sell for:  754 million dollars

What did Ben buy with the money: An airport to land his real planes on.




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Short Bedtime Stories Presents: Ben Ventor's New BB Gun Invention

A Story For Kids Presents: Ben Ventor's New BB Gun Invention

     “Mom, why do we need to knock down this old barn?”  Ben asked, annoyed that he was spending his summer vacation doing chores that he did not find necessary.

     “Yeah,” added Fran with a look of disgust all over her face. “It is full of cow poop.  We are gonna get some disease.”

     “You are not going to get a disease,” their mom said, becoming a little annoyed.  “We have to tear this down because it is an ugly scar on our lawn.”

     The old barn had been sitting on their property since they had bought the house several years ago.  The kids used to play “farm” in the barn but eventually stopped when they saw the mice running around in it.  Their dad had told them about diseases they could catch from mice, and the barn became more of a setting for a zombie horror movie than a fun hide out.

“Besides,” their dad added between swings of the sledge hammer.  “Don’t you want the room to put something else better back here?”

     “Yes, dad,” answered Ben. But then he asked what everyone had been thinking. “Dad, with all of the money we have now, why don’t we just hire someone to knock this down for us?”

     “Yeah, let them die from diseases,” added Fran, as she covered her mouth and nose from toxic smells.

     “Kids,” his dad explained, “if we let everyone do all of our work for us, your mom and I wouldn’t be doing our job as parents to teach you to work hard.”

     “But, we are never going to have to work hard,” said Fran, well aware of how much money they now had. “Ever,” she continued.  “Like never in our whole life.”

     “True,” said Ben’s mom, but hard work builds character, and character builds solid relationships.  You would be rich and very unhappy if you didn’t have any solid relationships.”

     Ben knew his mom was right, but that did not stop his mind from wondering about a better way to knock down a building. Then the idea hit him.

     Overnight was all the time Ben needed to be able to come down to the barn the next morning ready to demolish.

     “Did you bring that hammer I asked you to bring,” his dad asked, already seeing that Ben did not have the hammer.

     “No,” answered Ben, holding up what looked like a bb gun. 

     “We don’t need a bb gun, Ben.  We are demolishing today,” answered his mom.

     “But, these are special bb’s,” Ben said, holding up what appeared to be red, yellow, blue, and white bb’s.  “They are called elemental bb’s.”

     “Here we go,” said Fran, rolling her eyes.  “What do we do, eat one, and then we can burp down the walls?”

    “Gross,” said Ben.  “No, I’ll show you what they do.”

     Ben put a yellow bb into the gun, took aim at a can on the far end of the barn.  He pulled the trigger.  The bb connected with the can making a “ping” sound as it usually did.  Except this time, the can turned into sand and crumbled to the ground.

     “You turned that can into sand,” his dad said, looking at Ben like he was a modern day magician.

     “Well, the bb did,” corrected Ben.  “The yellow ones are sand bb’s.”

    “What are the red ones?” asked his mom.

     “Whatever you shoot with those catches on fire,” answered Ben, a little sheepishly, knowing his mom did not like him playing with fire.

     “I’ll take those,” his mom said, holding her hand out to Ben.  “Don’t need you accidentally catching the house or Peter on fire.”

    “What are the blue ones for?” asked his dad, becoming fascinated with the new invention.

     “Come here and I’ll show you,” Ben said, loading his gun and walking to the center of the Barn.

     The family all lined up in the middle of the Barn.  It used to be that the Ventor’s might wonder if standing in a dark dusty barn was worth it to see their child’s latest invention, but with Ben they had found that waiting was well worth it.

     “Just watch the ceiling,” Ben said, raising the bb gun up to shoot the ceiling of the barn.  He then pulled the trigger.  Again, the barn made the usual sound of a bb hitting a wooden barn.  And, that is when the crazy event happened.  All at once, the Barn turned into a barn completely made of water.  It held for a moment in the air before gravity took hold.  The Barn then collapsed into a puddle on the ground, completely soaking the Ventors in the process.

     “Not Cool, Ben,” said Fran, scowling at Ben.

     “Rain?” said Peter, looking to the sky above to see if the clouds would drop any more.

How are the elemental bb’s used today:  The army uses the bb’s to turn enemy tanks, planes, and boats into sand.  Demolition experts drop buildings into a puddle with one shot.  Sisters turn their brother’s baseball mitts into ice so their brothers can watch it slowly melt in the hot sun.

Elemental bb’s sale price:  247 million dollars

What did Ben buy with the Money?  Ben made a fantastical soft playground for the elderly next to the local nursing home.




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