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Paz loves photos: the Département even runs a game, \"Où se cache Paz?\" (\"Where is Paz hiding?\"), to guess where she is posing, and invited 5-to-10-year-olds to a drawing contest, \"Paz, un dessin pour nos aînés\" (\"Paz, a drawing for our elders\").",[11,73,74,75,78],{},"In our universe, Paz holds the whale's line at the bottom of the big \"40\" of kites, and she asks the questions of the ",[15,76,77],{},"quiz"," — with a little kite flyer's diploma at the end.",[33,80,82],{"id":81},"tom-the-kite-builder","Tom, the kite builder",[11,84,85,86,89,90,93],{},"Yellow cap on backwards, blue fringe and orange vest: ",[15,87,88],{},"Tom"," always has a piece of string in his pocket. His dream? To fly a kite he built himself at the festival. 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He hosts ",[15,131,132],{},"\"Seals of the bay\"",", a binoculars game that teaches the 300-metre rule.",[120,135,136,125,139,142,143,146],{},[15,137,138],{},"Feather",[45,140,141],{},"Plume","), an owl kite that flew away from the 40th anniversary poster, knows every kite by heart. 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