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Tonight, I'll be reading a story out of the Blue Fairy Book called East of the Sun and West of the Moon, edited by Andrew

Lang in 1889. This story is a Norwegian fairy tale about the search for a lost

husband.

Let's get cozy. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

East of the sun and west of the moon. Once upon a time there was a poor husbandman who had many children and little to give them in the way of either food or clothing.

They were all pretty, but the prettiest of all was the youngest daughter, who was so

beautiful that there were no bounds to her beauty.

So once it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn and wild weather outside, terribly

dark and raining so heavily and blowing so hard that the walls of the

cottage shook again. They were all sitting together by the fireside, each of them busy with something or other, when suddenly

someone wrapped three times against the window pane. The man went out to see what could be the

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