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Thunder and Lightning

Long ago in southern Nigeria, Thunder and Lightning lived among the ordinary people like you and me. Thunder was an old sheep and her son Lightning was a young ram.

The king made them live at the far end of the village because of Lightning’s fierce temper. When he

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