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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. Well, 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 Sheer 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 folk tale 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+. Watch

for Christopher as Batman's first sidekick, Nightwing, in the new action role-playing

video game Gotham Knights. So Circle Round everyone for Strong Mind and Kind Heart.

Once upon a time there were two friends. One of the friends was a specially clever, so

everyone called him Strong Mind. The other friend was a specially caring, so everyone

called him Kind Heart. Strong Mind and Kind Heart had known each other since the day they

were born. They had played together as children. Let's go swimming in the river, strong

mind. I bet I could beat you at a race across. And when they were all grown up, they worked

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