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Have you ever faced a challenge that felt pretty near impossible yet you refused to give

up?

We're about to meet a character who knows how you feel.

And when he refuses to give up, the results are dazzling.

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

Today our story is called Finding the Light.

It's inspired by traditional tales told among Alaska natives in the United States and

first nations communities in Canada.

Some really great people came together to bring you our folk tale, including Kennedy Kanagawa,

currently starring as Milky White in the hit Broadway Revival of Into the Woods at the

St. James Theatre.

So Circle Around Everyone.

For Finding the Light.

Way up north, where glaciers gleam and mountains loom and the tundra stretches on for miles,

summer days are long.

So long the sun shines high in the sky past midnight and in the winter, well in the

winter there's hardly any sunlight at all.

In some places there's none whatsoever.

But once upon a time long, long ago the whole world was bathed in darkness all year round

and during this time of eternal night in a village way up north, there lived a young

man and his grandmother.

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