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 cliffhanger,

and I've been getting your letters, and I know that everyone is freaking out about Miss Betsy because we love Miss Betsy.

I love Miss Betsy and it turns out that Miss Betsy is ruined and what does this mean?

So we are going to talk about that today and then we're going to keep reading.

It's kind of a long chapter so I will try not to talk too much here at the beginning.

But I will just remind you

that we have two new items in the merch store. We have Barkus is Willen merch, and we have Janet

Donkey's merch. I'm really excited about it. I think I'm going to get the Janet Donkey's sweatshirt,

I think. And we also have stickers now for a variety of designs. I know some of you asked for

that. So I'm going to get the, just the story time for grown-ups logo to put on my computer. I'm going to get the sticker to put on my computer. I'm really excited about that. And so please do check out the merch store. It's very easy to find. You just scroll into the show notes. There's a link there. You can find all the designs that are there, plus the new ones, and you can see all the different kinds of things that you can get these designs on. And I hope you'll pick something up and proudly wear or take your Storytime merch with you, and hopefully somebody will say, hey, what does that mean? Or what's Storytime for grownups? And then you can tell them them and we can get more people listening to this show, more people with whom we can talk about these great books, because that is wonderful. The more, the merrier, I always say, the more the merrier. So please spread the word. Please subscribe to the show. Please tout the five stars if you're enjoying it. Please leave a positive review. That's another way that you can help people to find this show because it does something magical in their podcast player and just starts popping up to people who didn't even ask for it, but might want it. So please do all of those things if you can and if you're able. And if you would like to support the show financially, I also have a tip jar. You can find that in the show notes. There's a link there. And you can sign up to be a member of our online community, which is called the drawing room. And that's another way that you can support the show. So I hope that you will do that. But even if you just are sitting here listening, that is a way that you are supporting the show. And I am so, so glad, so, so grateful that you are here. Seriously, I think about this all the time.

I was texting recently with a friend that I haven't talked to in a while, someone who lives

somewhere else, not near me, and we were texting and she was asking me how the podcast is going,

and I said, you know, it is ridiculous how much I love doing this podcast. I love doing it so, so

much. And it's because of you guys. It's because

I know you're out there listening. I know that we're doing this together. I love getting your

letters. I love introducing these books to you or sharing them with you in this new way. And it's just,

it means the world to me. So thank you so much. Always, always for being here. Thank you.

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