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, everyone, welcome back.

I have to apologize again because my voice is scratchy yet again.

My family is just passing colds around this month. I feel like one or the other of us

has been sick since New Year, but it's okay. We're all doing well, but my voice is a little funny.

I have a kind of head cold, so you're going to probably hear my M sounding a little bit like

bees. But as usual, you don't have to worry about that in the chapters. Those were recorded

before when I was not sick, and all you have to worry about that in the chapters. Those were recorded before when I was not sick,

and all you have to do is bear with me through this introduction, and then you won't have to listen to this anymore.

So I apologize for that. By the way, if I ever do lose my voice completely, which does happen to me from time to time,

and I once did teach a class of 32 fourth graders with

absolutely no voice at all. So kind of proud of that. But anyway, sometimes I do lose my voice.

And if that happens, I have pre-recorded a message that lets you know that that is what's happened,

and I'm going to put that before the chapters. So you'll still get the chapters, even if I'm not

able to talk to you at the beginning. But hopefully that is not what is going to happen now. Hopefully, I will get

better instead of worse, and you will hear from me without this kind of funny sounding voice

on Thursday. But today, this is what you got. So hopefully you could bear with me, and I appreciate

that. So welcome back. I with me, and I appreciate that.

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