00:05All right, so we're going to be doing something special with the balloons in a moment,
00:09but I just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed having our friends from Benson Hills with us
00:14these past months. We're going to miss you all. So I was thinking, after we share our personal
00:21reflections, if you like, we can attach them to the balloons and release them into the sky.
00:28Yeah. All right, who would like to share first? Rupert? The great conflagration of 1922 erased a lot
00:38of the town we loved. I took the library where my mother taught me how to read. I lost everything
00:45that made me who I am. But it turns out I'm more than who I thought I was. I can
00:52be a good friend
00:54and I can handle not always being the smartest kid in the class.
00:58I lost my favorite pair of pajamas, but I got a new dream to one day be a magician.
01:05Before the fire, I thought nature was wise and gentle. So I guess I gained a new respect
01:13or how powerful it can be. I can't count all the things the fire took from me. I think of
01:21new ones
01:21all the time. The door frame where my dad kept track of my height, every drawing I ever drew for
01:27my
01:27mother. They only exist in my mind now. At first, when my dad couldn't come back for me, I was
01:36really mad,
01:38but Mr. and Mrs. Coulter took me in and they taught me how to make things and to bake and
01:43mend. And Goldie
01:46taught me how to smile again. And now, instead of just one family, but me and my dad, I have
01:54two families.
01:56Yes, you do.
02:31Yes, you do.
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