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 very cold and very rainy. It was very strange, but now it's back to being lovely and warm, and I am appreciating

it even more because of the strange, cold, and rainy weekend that we had.

I hope that you had a nice time, whatever it was for you.

And now it is Thursday, which means that it is tea time.

So I want to remind you that today, tonight, if you are listening

in real time, it is tea time at 8 p.m. Eastern over in our online community, which is called

the drawing room. And if you are not yet a member of the drawing room, or you are not a member

of the Landed Gentry, but you are a member of the drawing room, or you are not a member of the Landed Gentry, but you are a member

of the drawing room, and you would like to join us for tea time tonight, there is still time if you

are listening in real time. If it is not Thursday, May 28th, and that time has passed, or if it is

after 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, the 28th, then you're going to have to

wait until next time. But if it's before that, you can just scroll into the show notes,

click on the link that's there, sign up, and join us tonight for tea time. I hope that you will,

or I hope that you have signed up. I know some people have signed up between last tea time and

this tea time, so I'm really hoping to meet some new friends today. And of course, I'm always, as always,

I'm looking forward to chatting with my old friends. It's always such a fun time. We talk about

the book, so we'll talk about what we've read so far. We talk about things that the book is

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