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Carrots Grow from Carrot Seeds

 Carrots Grow from Carrot Seeds When I was small, my parents subscribed to a children's record service for a while, which regularly sent us 45 RPM records that contained stories read aloud.  While looking for something else entirely, I came across a YouTube video with one of those stories on it-- The Carrot Seed.  Here's a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxLfBSU-9E My brothers and sisters and I were allowed to get these records out whenever we wanted, and play them on the Hi-Fi (family record player) 'all by ourselves.'  I played that record over and over from about 1962 to 1968, and so did my siblings.  It was very scratched and dirty, and probably was eventually broken.  In any event, I had not heard the recording from the early 1970's until it popped up on YouTube in 2022. The recording is pretty much as I remember it-- Oddly, listening to the grit-free, skip-free version, I remember the scratches and skips from the original record.  The boy w