Welcome to Drift Off, bedtime stories to help you unwind, relax, and drift off.

Thank you for joining me, I'm your host Joanne, and it's a pleasure helping you get

restful sleep.

Tonight I will be reading Chapter 1 from Meita's Little Shop.

This gentle story by Enis Haines Irwin was published in 1909 and is about a sweet little

girl named Meita who is sickly in lame.

Her father is well known to be one of the most wealthiest men in America.

He decides to buy her a little shop in Charleston, Massachusetts to give her a purpose and

to help restore her health.

However, he has one condition that she not tell anyone who she is or who her father

is, and for the first time in her life, Meita makes wonderful new friends because they

think she's just an ordinary girl.

And so is always my friend, settling comfortably under the covers.

Take a slow, comfortable breath, and as you exhale, relax, and let go, although any

tension to just melt away, letting your body sink deeper

and deeper down into the softest of your bed.

There is nothing left to do and nowhere else to be, so just lay back, relax, and enjoy

the story.

Chapter 1 The Ride

More people sat in the big, shining automobile.

Three of them were men, the fourth was a little girl.

The little girl's name was Meita Westerbrook.

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