Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups.

I'm Faith Moore, and this season we're reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Each episode I'll read a few chapters 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, find a cozy but it really is true. I love doing this. I love being here with you. I mean, what an amazing thing to get to read books aloud to people and

have them listen and write into me. And I get to talk to you all and correspond with you via

email and I get to hear your amazing thoughts and reactions. What a gift. Thank you. Thank you so

much for being here. It's amazing. So today I have kind of a lot to talk about in the intro. It's going to be a bit

of a long intro after your comments because you have such great questions and comments. And also,

there's a lot of sort of historical contexts and some other kind of information that I feel like I need to

share with you today. And that's always fun.

So I'm going to do it. Luckily, the chapter itself is actually a short one. So it's a shorter

chapter, but a longer intro. And hopefully that'll all add up to basically the same amount of

time for the episode as usual. So we're going to do that. I'm not going to spend too much time

here talking at the beginning, because I am going to spend too much time here talking at the

beginning because I am going to spend a little bit of time chatting with you about a few things

before we get into the chapter. So please just make sure you're subscribed. Please tap the five

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