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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"A four-year-old girl sits on the floor of the hospital waiting room, her brown hair tied back in twin braids. She's playing with a small toy car, a little blue pickup truck that she rolls along the lines of the carpet as if they were a huge highway. Her father sits nervously in the chair next to her, looking up at the door that leads deeper into the hospital every few class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"According to her parents, today is a very important class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""River," They said, "today you are going to be a big sister!"span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Even though she is only four, she understands what that means. Her mom is going to have a baby. She also understands why she and her father cant be with her mother right now. They could bring in germs that could hurt the class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"But its been too long. Much too long. Even her father seems to understand that, as his eyes dart from River to the door, and back to River again. She's never seen him look so nervous before, even that time the stranger with black eyes showed up at their class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Then the doors open, and a doctor an a lab coat and blue scrubs steps out, a smile on his face. He strolls over to River and her father./p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Congratulations Mr. Temple. It's a healthy baby girl. Mrs. Temple is resting now, but asked that I bring you and River back. "/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The relief on her fathers face is noticeable, and secretly River is relieved too. She's seen on tv and in books that really bad stuff can happen in class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"After a few seconds more, River and her father are led off into the hospital, passing rooms filled with people and rooms with only one person sitting all alone. Finally, they come to a room where a nurse opens the door for them. Rivers mother is laying in the bed, wearing a thin-looking paper robe and holding a bundle of blankets. She looks tired./p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"River walks to her, standing on her tiptoes to view what is in the bundle. A tiny, sleeping face stares back at class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""River, this is Melody, your baby sister"/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"River barely notices her, fascinated by the oh-so-small human. Melody is perfect, so perfect, and immediately River loves class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Mama…may I hold her? I promise Ill be careful"/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Her mother smiles again, handing the baby to Rivers father, who holds his youngest daughter while his oldest gets seated in the chair next to the bed. Then he reaches out, placing Melody carefully in Rivers arms, with hands out in case the baby slips. But she doesn' class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The baby is heavier than she expected, but not too much for River to hold. She holds her close, leaning in to whisperspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Im always gonna protect you little sister. Always and forever"/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"emEnd of The Start of Something Beautiful (Standalone Episode)/em/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"A four-year-old girl sits on the floor of the hospital waiting room, her brown hair tied back in twin braids. She's playing with a small toy car, a little blue pickup truck that she rolls along the lines of the carpet as if they were a huge highway. Her father sits nervously in the chair next to her, looking up at the door that leads deeper into the hospital every few class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"According to her parents, today is a very important class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""River," They said, "today you are going to be a big sister!"span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Even though she is only four, she understands what that means. Her mom is going to have a baby. She also understands why she and her father cant be with her mother right now. They could bring in germs that could hurt the class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"But its been too long. Much too long. Even her father seems to understand that, as his eyes dart from River to the door, and back to River again. She's never seen him look so nervous before, even that time the stranger with black eyes showed up at their class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Then the doors open, and a doctor an a lab coat and blue scrubs steps out, a smile on his face. He strolls over to River and her father./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Congratulations Mr. Temple. It's a healthy baby girl. Mrs. Temple is resting now, but asked that I bring you and River back. "/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The relief on her fathers face is noticeable, and secretly River is relieved too. She's seen on tv and in books that really bad stuff can happen in class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"After a few seconds more, River and her father are led off into the hospital, passing rooms filled with people and rooms with only one person sitting all alone. Finally, they come to a room where a nurse opens the door for them. Rivers mother is laying in the bed, wearing a thin-looking paper robe and holding a bundle of blankets. She looks tired./p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"River walks to her, standing on her tiptoes to view what is in the bundle. A tiny, sleeping face stares back at class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""River, this is Melody, your baby sister"/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"River barely notices her, fascinated by the oh-so-small human. Melody is perfect, so perfect, and immediately River loves class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Mama…may I hold her? I promise Ill be careful"/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"Her mother smiles again, handing the baby to Rivers father, who holds his youngest daughter while his oldest gets seated in the chair next to the bed. Then he reaches out, placing Melody carefully in Rivers arms, with hands out in case the baby slips. But she doesn' class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"The baby is heavier than she expected, but not too much for River to hold. She holds her close, leaning in to whisperspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';""Im always gonna protect you little sister. Always and forever"/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"emEnd of The Start of Something Beautiful (Standalone Episode)/em/p