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A famous author named Henry David Thoreau once wrote, rather than love, then money, then

fame, give me truth. What he meant by that is things like love, money and fame can be

temporary, but the truth lasts forever. Today we'll meet two characters who must choose

whether or not to tell the truth, and that decision changes their lives forever.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called a song for the spirits. Versions of this tale originally come

from parts of West Africa, including the countries of Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this story, including

Chris Marshall, star of the Apple TV Plus series for all mankind. You Circle Round Super

Fans may recognize Chris from our season three story, The Birds and the Trees. So Circle

Round Everyone for a song for the spirits. On the outskirts of a small village, where

the little wooden huts met the edge of a dense leafy forest, there lived a Fisherwoman.

The Fisherwoman had to work hard to keep food on the table, clothes on her back and a roof

over her head. So every morning she'd wake at the break of dawn, eat a humble breakfast,

then walk through the dense leafy forest to get to the ocean. The Fisherwoman would untie

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