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    Tante’s Tales

    Oct 05, 2021 3 minutes
    By Ruth Enderle Brown

    Tante is the German word for “Aunty” and is pronounced “TAHN-tah.”

    During the years I was growing up in rural North Dakota, in the 1930s and ’40s, our father’s aunt Catherine was a beloved member of our household. We younger children enjoyed going to her room in the afternoons for story time. She was a wonderful storyteller and kept us enthralled with her accounts of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales. There were 210 of these tales

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