Hi everyone. My name is Kristen Nettie and you're listening to Dreamy.

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

Dreamy is the sister podcast To Sleepy and is produced by Otis Gray.

I wanted to thank everyone for all the amazing reviews and messages since Dreamy has launched.

It means so much and I am so happy that this show has been helping you get the sleep you need.

Since Dreamy is a brand new podcast, your reviews help so much

in making it easier for other people to find the show and get the sleep that they need too. So if this

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and review on Apple Podcasts to help the show grow.

And you can leave a request for a book you'd like to hear in the review.

Thank you.

The music you're hearing is by R.B.K.E.

And the cover art for Dreamy is by Gracie Canaan.

Tonight I'll be reading The Pomegranate Seats by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Now is the time to gently close your eyes. Get really comfortable.

Take a deep breath in and on your exhale feel your body completely relax while I read you a bedtime story.

Mother Saris was exceedingly fond of her daughter Perphone, and seldom let her go alone into the fields.

But just at the time when my story begins, the good lady was very busy, because she had the care of the wheat and the Indian corn, and the ryan barley, and in short, of the crops of every kind, all over the earth.

And as the season had thus far been uncommonly backward, it was necessary to make the harvest

ripen more speedily than usual. So she put on her turban, made of poppies, a kind of flower which she was always noted for wearing,

and got into her car drawn by a pair of winged dragons, and was just ready to set off.

Dear mother, said Persephone, I shall be very lonely while you are away.

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