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Think about your favorite lunch, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, for example. Now imagine

you had to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for every meal of every day. PB&J for breakfast,

PB&J for lunch, PB&J for dinner, all day long, PB&J. You would probably start to get

a little tired of it, right? It would be too much of a good thing as the saying goes.

Well, we're about to visit a world where the people know exactly how that feels. I'm Rebecca

Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. Today our story

is called Night and Day. Versions of this tale come from the Yeruba people of Western Africa

and Brazil. Some really great people came together to bring you our adaptation of this

tale, including actor, singer and songwriter, Mousumi, star of the new film Yakuza Princess.

Young as a newborn baby, it was always day. The sun kept its place high in the sky. Its

golden rays constantly bathing the mountains and valleys, the ponds and streams, the fields

and forests. So the earth was bright and the earth was warm. But with the sun forever blazing

up above, the people were often out of sync.

Hello there friends, I wonder, will you help my family and me work our fields?

I can't. It's time for my family and me to sleep. We've been up for hours. And it's

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