Hello and welcome to the story time for grown-ups' Christmas Spectacular. I'm Faith Moore,

and for the month of December, we'll be reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Each

episode, I'll read one chapter from the book, pausing from time to time to give brief explanations,

so it's easier to follow along. It's like an audiobook with

built-in notes. So brew a pot of tea or a mug of hot chocolate, find a cozy chair, throw another log on the fire,

and settle in. It's story time. Hello, I am so happy to be here with you today. I am always happy to be here with you, but today is my

birthday, and I'm extra happy to be with you on my birthday. What a treat to get to read this

amazing book with you on my birthday and to talk to you about this book.

This is so fun, and I have a gift for you.

I am so excited about this.

I am very pleased to announce that Storytime for grown-ups has a merch store.

If you have been with me from the beginning, at some point in season one, when we had been reading Jane Eyre together and this show was starting to grow and it was starting to come together and feel like a community, the way that really feels like a community now, it was starting to feel that way.

I said, one day, maybe we'll have a merch store. Maybe we'll be able to have story time for grown-ups

mugs and shirts and things like that. And, you know, I've joked before I have this thing I like to call

the one-day list, meaning one day, one day that thing will happen. And there are so many things.

My one-day list for this show is growing and growing and growing. But if this new development is anything to go by, we're going to get to every single one of those

things on my one-day list.

It'll just be one day.

But for the merch store, that day is today.

So in the description of this episode, in the show notes, so wherever you're listening, if you just

scroll down to where it says what this episode is about, there is a link to our merch store. Currently, there is

one design, so you can get various things with this design on it. There's mugs, there's t-shirts,

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