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 chair, and settle in. It's story time. Hello, welcome back.

I hope that you're in your cozy chair with your cup of tea and your little lovely teapot and your little tea sandwiches and scones and even if you're not doing anything even

remotely like that, I hope as always that this podcast feels like that to you. I know that we're not

all sitting in our cozy chairs with our cups of tea, but wouldn't it be nice if we were and wouldn't

it be nice if we were all together? But I nice if we were all together but i just i just hope that

this podcast can be like a sort of virtual cozy chair and that you can feel like you're sitting

there with your tea steaming beside you as we read this book together and talk together because

we're all out there in our various places doing whatever we're

doing but in our minds we're in our cozy chairs with our cups of tea it's funny over in the drawing

room which is our online community we've been chatting a little bit about tea and people have

been confessing that they don't actually like tea or they don't drink much tea or

they're coffee drinkers or whatever it is and that's completely fine but for me tea is like it's not

just a drink it's like a way of life it's comfort you know if i drink a cup of tea i just immediately

feel better and i hope that there's something like that for you. Maybe this podcast can be

like that for you. It certainly feels like that for me as well. So I'm glad you're here,

whatever you're doing, and wherever you are. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for joining

us again on Storytime for Grownups and checking back in with David and what he's doing. And

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