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Celebrating the Legends Created by the People of the Mountain

A young man, alone at night, finds a young woman in some level of distress. She needs a ride home. On the way, the young man becomes smitten and drops the girl off, planning to reunite with her in the days to come. When he came back in the light of day, she was nowhere to be found.

But what about the true stories of the mountains? Not true in the sense that they’re literally true, but true in the sense that they really originated in the mountains....



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