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S03E300 The Beach, Part 3, Swimming Costume

Guy Hasson
Age: 9, Told by Grampa Walt

Can you create Glen Beach?” Madelyn asks Amahle. 

Amahle exhales, and suddenly beyond Suzy’s and mine small island, Justin’s ocean is covered with a beach bustling with people. Suzy gasps. The sand is a different color, the beach umbrellas are colorful, too, and there are so many people here, families, friends, people who came on their own. 

How could Amahle create such detail and such colors when she’s been blind from birth?!

“It is… magnifique,” Madelyn says. “I adore this place! And there is no need for suntan lotion!” 

Amahle laughs. In a second, her clothes are replaced by a one-piece bathing suit with a kind of - I don’t know the name for it - the kind that has a kind of a skirt around it at the bottom. 

“What is this?” Madelyn asks. 

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02E221 Girls’ Night Out, Part 2, As Strong as a Girl

Guy Hasson
Age: 8.5, Told by Grampa Walt

Amahle feels around with her hand once Joy comes back from her cabin, having put her toothbrush and toothpaste in place. “Joy,” Amahle touches her cheek, then her shoulder. “I want to do something nice. I want us to have fun! Can you get excited for that?”

“I want to go,” Joy says. “It sounds like a thing you do in the waking world.”

“It is,” Madelyn says.

“On special occasions,” Amahle adds. “This is a special occasion.”

“But why only girls? What kind of adventure is it? Why can’t Charlie come? I mean, he’s a dreamer. So it doesn’t matter that he’s not as strong as a girl.”

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