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Sufjan Stevens on 'Sleeping Bear, Sault Saint Marie' : Long ago a great famine spread over the land. A mother bear and two famished cubs walked the shore on Wisconsin, gazing across the great lake at Michigan, the land of plenty. Finally hunger overcame their timidness and the bears launched out, to swim to Michigan. As they approached the shore, the mother’s words of encouragement urged on the weary cubs. With only twelve miles to go, the mother’s heart was rent as she saw one cub sink and drown.