Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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take a nice deep breath in,

let it out out out slowly.

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Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight we're continuing our return to some of your favorites

with On the Origin of species by means of natural selection,

or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life,

by Charles Darwin, MA, fellow of the Royal Geological L'Anae

E. C.R.

Societies. Author of Journal. etc societies.

Author of Journal of Researchers

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