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Hi, Rebecca Shear here.

Here at Circle Round, we're taking time off as we get ready to bring you the ninth season of our WBUR podcast,

featuring dozens of folk tales from around the world,

and an exciting lineup of live episode recordings across the United States.

This week we're bringing you a special encore edition of the podcast,

a really fun story you may have missed the first time around.

Enjoy! Have you ever made a pact? A pact is an

agreement that you make with somebody, and ideally you both follow through on your ends of the

bargain. While we're about to meet a character who does not hold up his end of the bargain,

and as a result, he ends up getting way less than he bargained for.

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

Today, our story is called Strong Mind and Kind Heart.

Versions of this folktale come from the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam.

Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this tale, including Christopher Sean,

whom you might recognize from his lead role on Star Wars Resistance on Disney Plus.

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