13| Reading my mother a bedtime story: the twin heroes
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit ismatu.substack.com in which I read from The Annotated African American Folktales and she occasionally gives a heartfelt "mmm." listen to the full story at Ismatu.substack.com. 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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