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Tonight's bedtime story is a beautiful tale that is included in the Gifts of Story series

of Storytelling Adaptations by Aaron Shepard, a Vietnamese legend called The Crystal

Heart about a Mandarin's daughter who discovers that appearances can deceive, but the heart

speaks true.

So settle in under the covers and smuggle up tight.

Let's get sleepy together now, sweet dreams and good night.

Long ago in a palace by the Red River, their loved a great Mandarin and his daughter,

Mean Wong.

Like other young ladies in her position, Mean Wong was kept indoors away from the eyes

of admiring men.

She spent most of her time in her room at the top of a tower.

Where she would sit on a bench by a moon-shaped window, waiting or embroidering, chatting with

her maid, engaging out often at the garden in the river.

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