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Tonight I'll be reading the opening to the 1911 novel Peter Pan by J.M. Berry.

Peter is a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly and has many adventures on the island of Neverland.

The titular character's name comes from a boy named Peter that the author would read his stories to and Pan the mischievous Greek

God of the woodlands. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 1 Peter breaks through. All children except one grow up. They soon know that they will grow up. They soon know that they will grow up and the way Wendy knew was this.

One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower

and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful.

For Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried,

Oh, why can't you remain like this forever?

This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up.

You always know after you are two.

Two is the beginning of the end. Of course they lived at 14, their

house number on their street, And until Wendy came, her mother was the chief one.

She was a lovely lady with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth.

Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling

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