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 I had a great trip. It was very nice to get away for a little while to have a little vacation. It was lovely to see my family. We had a wonderful

Easter, and it was great, but I really did miss you. And I missed David. I missed David Copperfield.

It felt like all of this stuff was happening, and I wasn't there to see it, and I wasn't there

to get to talk to you about it. So I really did miss you. And I know that even now I am alone

in my room talking into this microphone, but it does feel different. It feels like, okay, now you're

going to hear this in real time and respond in real time. And we're back. We're back together again.

And I'm so happy to be here. I can't wait to jump in. So I got lots of

amazing letters while I was away, lots of reactions to all the things that I knew you were

going to have reactions to like Dora and the fact that Ms. Mirdstone showed up again,

Uriah wanting to marry Agnes and Agnes's whole

situation and David's whole situation. So we're going to talk about all of that, and we're going

to talk about Chapter 27, which we read last time. So we have lots to talk about. I don't really

have any new announcements today. I am working on scheduling the tea time for April.

I'm sorry that I haven't got that deep locked in just yet. I'm juggling a few scheduling things,

but it should be the last week of April, and on Thursday, I will let you know for sure what date

that's going to be. But other than that, please just make sure you subscribe to the show.

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