Hello! Welcome to Stories Podcast. I'm your host, Amanda Weldon. Today's story is called

Why Monkeys Live Forever, a retelling from a translation of Journey to the West by Wu

Cheng N, written for the podcast by Michael Lowe, our friend from luckoflegens.com. For more about Michael

and luckoflegens.com, tune in at the end of the episode.

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