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I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Todays story is for intermediate learners.
The name of the story is sisters.
Sisters.
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Today's story is quite long, so I'm going to do the same thing that I did for the boy who knew no fear and split it into two parts, leaving the vocabulary explanations for part two at the end of part one.
You might even want to take a break between the two parts or listen to part two on a different day.
This story is inspired by a traditional folk song, the two sisters, but I decided to put the story in a modern setting as I haven't written too many stories on the podcast set in the present day.
The original story is about two sisters who argue by a river because they are both in love with the same man and the older sister pushes the other into the water and she drowns.
Later, someone makes a harp, a musical instrument out of the bones and hair of the dead sister and she plays herself and sings the song of what's happened, revealing that her sister murdered her.
My version of the story is quite different, but it's still all to do with music.
The title sisters, sisters is a reference to a song from the film White Christmas.
The song goes sisters, sisters.
There were never such devoted sisters never had to have a chaperone.
No sir, I'm here to keep my eye on her.
It is a classic show tune.
Show tunes are songs from musicals, often from old Hollywood films.
The sisters in my story are inspired by the sisters from this song.