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 snow on my little

tiny outdoor deck. So I'm feeling very cozy. I have my cup of tea right next to me here.

And I am really happy to be with you and excited to be here on this snowy day.

Thank you, by the way, to those of you who

came to tea time on Tuesday. It was lovely to get to chat with you, and I always love checking in,

and we always have such fun and interesting conversations. So thank you to those of you who

showed up. I really appreciate you being there. I will schedule the next tea time in the

next couple of weeks and let you know when I have a date scheduled. It will be somewhere at the

end of February. It's usually around the end of the month. So I will keep you updated on that.

If you missed this tea time and you'd like to join in the next one, just make sure that you are

signed up to be a member of our online community, The Drawing Room. There is a link in the show

notes to sign up for that and learn more about it as well. So if you'd like to join us next time,

there is plenty of time now to sign up. And you can also just explore the drawing room,

which is really fun. We have a lot of great conversations over there. It's very active. And so

you will definitely make new friends if you sign up and join us. So thank you to those of you who

came to tea time on Tuesday. Okay, so we had a kind of a short chapter last time, which means that

the intro is going to be a bit

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