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Tonight, I'll be reading a snoozy opening to Miss Ludington's sister by Edward Bellamy.

Miss Ludington's sister, written in 1885 is an earlier work by Edward Bellamy. The author later found fame as a socialist

utopian science fiction writer.

This particular book, however, is a standard love story with a twist.

let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take her back. of your lives. Chapter 1. The happiness of some lives is distributed pretty evenly over the whole stretch from

the cradle to the grave, while that of others comes all at once, glorifying some particular epoch

and leaving the rest in shadow.

During one, five, or ten Bly the years, as the case may be, all the springs of life

send up sweet waters. Joy is in the very air we breathe. Happiness seems our

native element. During this period we know what is the zest of living as compared with the mere

endurance of existence which is perhaps the most we have attained before or since.

With men this culminating epoch comes often in manhood,

or even at maturity, especially with men of arduous

and successful careers.

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