We've all been there. You're standing in a museum, staring at a painting, and all you can think is,

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Hey, my name's Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.

Podcasts where I read old books to help you get to sleep and a proud member of the Airway

podcast network. I have got a wonderful snoozy bedtime story for you tonight. But before we get to

tonight's reading, I just want to thank all of our patrons on patreon.com.

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Thank you all so sincerely for donating and being a part of making this show.

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a month. It goes a really long way. No matter how much you donate, I'll read your name in the

opening credits of the next show. That's patreon.com slash sleepy radio. Thank you.

And as always, the music you're hearing is by my good friend James Leopcowski and the cover

up for Sleepy is by Gracie Canaan. I think I'm probably like most people in that. I really love

the new year because it just feels like a fresh star. It feels like you can do things that you

might have been putting off or something you've always wanted to do, but needed kind of the urgency

to do it. One other great thing specifically for me and you listening to this is that every year

new books and literature enters the public domain when their copyright expires and I'm allowed to read

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