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Dec 2022
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13| Reading my mother a bedtime story: t...

Ismatu Gwendolyn
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in which I read from The Annotated African American Folktales and she occasionally gives a heartfelt "mmm."

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The Twin Heroes: An African Myth adapted by Alphonso O. Stafford | from the section “Folktales from The Brownies’ Book” out of The Annotated African American Folktales



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