Hi everyone, my name is Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.

I've got a really wonderful memoir for you to fall asleep to tonight.

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I'm going to be reading a story that I've been wanting to read for a while, and wanting to get to this July.

That's it is the most patriotic month in the US. It's the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, published in 1791.

Now, it turns out Benjamin Franklin was a pretty wonderful writer, really relatable, really easy to connect with the actual writing.

And he's a good storyteller, and his autobiography is kind of hailed as one of the best examples of memoir in history.

This autobiography is separated into a few parts, and part one is actually kind of written as a letter addressed to his son William.

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