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1. 0:04genre
2. 0:05realistic fiction a fresh
3. 0:09idea one
4. 0:12bright saturday morning molly and her
5. 0:15mom
6. 0:16walked around the neighborhood that is
7. 0:19her mom walked but molly ran skipped
8. 0:22jumped over puddles and visited the
9. 0:25neighbor's dogs
10. 0:27molly paused to look at the budding
11. 0:29trees on her block
12. 0:31i can't wait until summer she said
13. 0:34especially for mrs
14. 0:36faire's great tomatoes at her market
15. 0:38stand
16. 0:39she pointed molly's mom
17. 0:43stood looking at the empty lot where the
18. 0:45market
19. 0:46set up every summer weekend she looked
20. 0:49at molly
21. 0:50honey mrs faire told me last week that
22. 0:53she had to close her stand
23. 0:55she's really getting too old to run it
24. 0:58anymore
25. 1:00molly turned stared and put her hands on
26. 1:03her hips
27. 1:05but mrs fair's stand can't close
28. 1:08she said it's the only place in the
29. 1:11neighborhood we can buy fresh delicious
30. 1:14tomatoes
31. 1:16then she added to show she wasn't being
32. 1:18selfish
33. 1:19everyone needs fruits and vegetables for
34. 1:22a healthy diet
35. 1:25after they got home molly headed out to
36. 1:28her backyard swing to think
37. 1:31if only i could plant a garden she
38. 1:33thought
39. 1:34but our yard is way too small
40. 1:38just then she noticed her neighbor mr
41. 1:41taylor looking at his daffodils
42. 1:44molly knew he was thinking about how he
43. 1:46had planted those flowers with his wife
44. 1:49this was the first spring since his wife
45. 1:51had died
46. 1:52and molly saw the sadness on his face
47. 1:56then
48. 2:01molly cleared her throat and mr taylor
49. 2:04looked up
50. 2:05molly decided to walk over to the fence
51. 2:09hi mr taylor she said he waved and
52. 2:13turned away wait molly cried
53. 2:17taking a risk while she still felt brave
54. 2:21she rushed to gather her thoughts
55. 2:24mr taylor mrs fair isn't doing her
56. 2:27tomato stand anymore because she's
57. 2:29getting old
58. 2:30so i'd like to grow tomatoes i don't
59. 2:33want to get in the way of your flowers
60. 2:35though
61. 2:35i mean i really like tomatoes
62. 2:40suddenly mr taylor smiled molly i'm not
63. 2:44sure what you're talking about but
64. 2:45you've made me smile
65. 2:47reasons to smile have been scarce lately
66. 2:51what do you want to do
67. 2:54as mr taylor listened an idea came to
68. 2:57him
69. 2:59i still need a place to plant my flowers
70. 3:02but there's room for tomatoes how about
71. 3:05i make you alone i'll let you
72. 3:08use a plot of land in my yard i'll help
73. 3:12you
74. 3:12and when your garden starts to prosper
75. 3:16you can repay me with a few tomatoes
76. 3:21molly and mr taylor shook hands on this
77. 3:23deal
78. 3:24but first mr taylor said you'll have to
79. 3:28make an
80. 3:28investment by buying some tomato plants
81. 3:31at the nursery
82. 3:34molly thought well i have some savings
83. 3:37from my allowance
84. 3:38and i was saving to buy a computer game
85. 3:41she paused
86. 3:42but i'd rather have tomatoes so let's
87. 3:45start
88. 3:46right away the next day
89. 3:50molly bought all the tomato plants she
90. 3:52could afford
91. 3:54mr taylor taught molly how to prepare
92. 3:57the soil
93. 3:57and place the plants finally
94. 4:01molly placed stakes in the ground to
95. 4:04help hold the plants up
96. 4:06mr taylor explained once the tomatoes
97. 4:10come
98. 4:10the heavy fruit makes the branches bend
99. 4:14then all they could do was water pull
100. 4:18weeds and wait
101. 4:22when the fruit ripened there were more
102. 4:24juicy red tomatoes than even molly could
103. 4:27have imagined
104. 4:29there is no way i can eat all these she
105. 4:32realized
106. 4:33on saturday molly and mr taylor carried
107. 4:37several crates of ripe tomatoes to the
108. 4:39market
109. 4:40and by the day's end they had sold them
110. 4:43all
111. 4:45not only did i get back the money i
112. 4:47invested said molly
113. 4:49but i also made a profit of twenty
114. 4:51dollars
115. 4:53mr taylor said those are also your wages
116. 4:57you've earned that money molly beamed
117. 5:01and said mr taylor maybe you could sell
118. 5:05some of your flowers
119. 5:06and we could run a market stand together
120. 5:10mr taylor picturing a garden of zinnias
121. 5:13and marigolds
122. 5:15was already looking forward to next
123. 5:17summer