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

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

Well, tonight's, I have a story for you that actually just entered the public domain.

And I'm very excited to read it to you because it's one of my favorite authors, John Steinbeck.

And before we get to the bedtime reading, I just want to profoundly thank all of our brand new patrons on patreon.com, which is a wonderful site where you can go and pledge $2 to get an ad-free version of Sleepy.

So, this week's wonderful new patrons, Donna, Brendan Nets, Bob Mahoney, Laura Harrington, Renee, Eric Rankie, and Barbara Elder.

Thank you all so, so much for being a part of making this show.

It really, really means a lot.

And for anyone who doesn't know, these names that I just read are brand new patrons on

patreon.com, which is a website where you can go and support the people who make

the stuff that you like. So if you like Sleepy and you want to pledge a really small amount of

money to get cool perks, like an ad-free version of Sleepy or having your name read on the show

for just $1, then you can go to

patreon.com slash Sleepy Radio. Thanks.

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

for Sleepy is by Gracie Canaan.

So as I've said in previous episodes this month and every January for years now,

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