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That was such a cute, little story.😍

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Thank you, Patricia. I am glad you enjoyed your time on Phiddle. 🤓

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Sep 11, 2023Liked by Mark Starlin

Quand nous rêvons, n'aurions-nous pas aussi la langue du lieu où nous sommes disponibles ? Mais hélas, cela disparaîtrait dès que nos yeux s'ouvriraient. Contrairement, par exemple, à Google Translate. 😉

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Sep 11, 2023·edited Sep 11, 2023Author

There you go making me use Google Translate. 🤣

I think we probably dream in our native language unless we have lived in a foreign country for a long time. Then we probably think and dream in either language. Just my guess. I took two years of Spanish in High School but can't remember much.

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Phiddleberries! Such a great word! I think I would love phiddleberries, Mark. It was so unexpected that you would bring this old-fashioned fairy tale into the future with a push-button homing-device necklace. What a mind you have.

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Sep 11, 2023·edited Sep 11, 2023Author

Thank you, Sharron. I would love to take the credit, but it was all Professor Tinkerhoffer's idea.

I would love to visit Phiddle someday and try some phiddleberries.

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"Finding Faraway" turned out very nicely.

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Thank you, David. Things tend to work out on Phiddle. 🤓

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Was there once a story about a hot air balloon on Phiddle?

Thank you for delighting me Mark!

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Sep 11, 2023·edited Sep 11, 2023Author

My pleasure, 3. 🤓

Yes. Professor Tinkerhoffer owns a hot air balloon and it is featured in several Island of Phiddle stories. There is also the story of The Bird Who Was Afraid To Fly which features the professor’s balloon and a bird-sized hot-air balloon.

https://markstarlinwrites.substack.com/p/monday-morning-mark-118

And the follow up The Bird Who Crashed Her Hot-Air Balloon.

https://markstarlinwrites.substack.com/p/monday-morning-mark-119

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Yes! The bird who was afraid to fly. That is the one! — tickling my memory. 😁

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