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    "title": "Pip's Big Wish",
    "text": "Pip the pig was hot. The sun was hot on his tin top.\n\"I bid for a big fig,\" said Pip.\nA big fig sat on a tip of a log. But it was up, up, up. Pip did not fit.\nHis mom sat on a mat. She had a kit. Pip had a big sip of his drink.\n\"A pin!\" said Pip. In the kit was a big pin.\nPip got the pin. He got up on his tip-top. He did a jab at the fig.\nThe fig did a dip. It hit his tin bin.\n\"I did it!\" said Pip. He sat in his pit. He bit the big, fat fig. It was a hit",
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    "a",
    "and",
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    "his",
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