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Jan 2024
22m 8s

Carmen Amaya read by Tanja Babich

REBEL GIRLS
About this episode
[This episode originally aired July 2019]. Once upon a time, there lived a flamenco dancer who could break floorboards with her feet. Her name was Carmen. Everywhere she went, audiences were awed and shocked by her masterful dancing and the fury of her feet. She belonged to the Romany, a group of people in Europe known as gypsies and treated as outsiders. Bu ... Show More
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