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hi welcome to seriously read a book my

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name is John and today we're going to be

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reading a book called the water princess

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based on the childhood experience of

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Georgie Bedell who is a she's a very

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successful model and today she is trying

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to make sure that the children in much

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of Africa have access to clean drinking

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water but this is sort of a moment or

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add a couple of days from her childhood

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here we go the water princess I am

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Princess Gigi look at you looking at the

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Stars My Kingdom the African sky so wide

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and so close I can almost touch the

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sharp edges of the stars I can tame the

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wild dogs with my song oh I can make the

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tall grass sway when I dance I can make

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the wind play hide-and-seek but I cannot

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make the water come closer I cannot make

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the water run clearer no matter what I

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command it's almost like she's trying to

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do magic her eyes are closed or her arms

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are out she's trying to make the water

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come closer

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it is still morning still dark

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my mother awakes me Gigi my princess it

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is time to get up we must collect the

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water

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with their eyes closed watch ah come do

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not make me wake before even the Sun is

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out of bed I demand

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come please I say but the water won't

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listen and I know we will have to walk

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so far to the well when there's her

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there are her mom's very big legs yeah I

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am too sleepy to put on my crown look at

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her she's you ever feel like that in the

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morning where you're waking up and it's

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hard to put your clothes on you have to

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go to school or you have to get ready to

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do something I think of the pot that

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will rest on my brains instead instead

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of the crown right my thirst comes quick

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dry lips dry throat I squeeze my eyes

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shut I see it clear I dip my toes in it

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cool I scoop it up and bring it to my

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lips slowly I open my eyes nothing I

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kick the dust look at her kicking the

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dust she wants the water to be in front

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of her right now doesn't wanna have to

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go I grab my empty pot and place it upon

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my head my mother does the same and our

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journey begins full of song my momma

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adds her melody our steps are light we

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twirl and laugh together the miles give

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us room to dance halfway there we stop

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for a moment at the giant corrida tree

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long enough to grab a handful of sweet

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shea nuts for energy look at them isn't

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that beautiful

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under that tree it's the daughter and

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her mom so ready these illustrations are

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so gorgeous aren't they

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we can keep the dance going just a

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little longer mama are we there yet

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you ever say that hmm look at her with

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uh with the pot on her head finally I

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hear they watch her running from there

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well the giggles of my friends the

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chatter of women some have traveled

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farther than I only to return home when

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the Sun has gone to bed look at all

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those women women carrying the important

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water with their kids women and their

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children look at that all doing that

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important work mama

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holds our place while I play with

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friends the dance continues the water is

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flowing look at this kids playing the

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women filling their pots pots filling

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with the dusty earth colored liquid this

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is not clear water

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this is dirty water Gigi come what - no

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says her mom my turn now the dance home

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has slowed - careful steps my thirst so

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heavy like the full pot I carry our song

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is softer now oh look the mama and Gigi

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and they are both walking the same way

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carrying pots something beautiful in

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that our shoulders ache our feet

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cramp I see home at last

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mama boils enough water for drinking we

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wait we wash our clothes we prepare food

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for cooking my father comes quickly from

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the fields to share and the drink in the

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meal he scoops me up my princess you

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have returned with the water hugs

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getting lots of hugs drink mama says

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finally every sip fills me with energy I

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want to make it last but I can

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i gulp it down get her drinking their

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clothes and body clean i sing to the

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dogs

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I dance with the tall grass I hide from

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the wind look at her in the fields the

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moon behind her mama brings one last cup

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she has saved just for me drink my

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princess sleep my princess

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tomorrow we journey again mama I say as

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I close my eyes why is the water so far

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why is the water not clean where is our

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water sleep

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she says dream she says someday you will

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find a way my princess someday I am

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Princess Gigi My Kingdom the African sky

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the dusty earth and someday the flowy

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cool crystal clear water someday

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and that is the water princess so

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princess Gigi grew up and started a

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nonprofit organization that now is

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trying to provide access to clean clear

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water for kids in Africa you can find it

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at Georgie by Dell foundation org you

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can see a link at the bottom of this

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video and I will also put a link

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underneath this video so you can just

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click on it if you want to alright hope

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you have a wonderful day

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bye

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