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Tonight, we'll read a Brazilian fairy tale called The Seaside Princess from Brazil, or Why the Sea Mones.

Adopted by Snewscast from Fairy Tales from Brazil, published in 1917.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Preface.

It is late afternoon in my Brazilian garden, the dazzling blue of sea and sky, which characterizes a tropical noon day,

has become seduced, and already rosy tints are beginning to prepare the glory of the sunset hour.

A lizard crawls lazily up the white washed wall, a songbird sounds from the royal palm tree.

The air is heavy with the perfume of the orange blossom.

There is no long twilight in the tropics.

Night will leap down suddenly upon my Brazilian garden from out of the glory of the sunset sky.

Teresa stands before us on the terrace under the mango trees, and we know that the story hour has come.

Teresa, daughter of the mudhuts under the palm trees, is a royal queen of storyline.

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