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    "text": "Pat the cat sat on a log. The sun was hot. The log got very hot. \n\n\"I can not sleep on this hot log,\" Pat said. \n\nHe had to hop off. Pat ran to a big box. A bug was on top of the box. \n\n\"Hop off my box,\" Pat said. \n\nThe bug ran off. Pat got in the box to sleep. It was not hot in the box.",
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