Hello and welcome to Story Time for Grownups. I'm Faith Moore, and this season we've been reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

But we've finished the book. In December, we'll begin our next book, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

But for now, let's wrap things up with one final episode on Pride and Prejudice.

So brew a pot of tea, find a cozy chair, and settle in.

It's story time. Happy Thanksgiving. If you're listening in real time, then today is Thanksgiving day.

Obviously, this episode was not recorded today. I'm hosting Thanksgiving this year,

and so my family has come in from out of town, and I'm with them today. I hope you are also with family today, but if you're not,

because I know not everyone can be, I hope you'll find some comfort for a little while here,

listening to Storytime for grownups and knowing that we are all out there,

all the story time listeners and me all over the country and all over the world, really,

together in this moment for this little time and that you're welcome here. Always.

So wherever you are and whenever you're listening, whether it's Thanksgiving Day or some

other day of the year, you belong here, and I'm always, always glad to have you. So today is a day

when we give thanks, and I could not be more grateful to you for being a part of this show, for listening,

for sharing your thoughts, for reading along with

me. Creating this podcast really has brightened my life and it has brought me and it continues to

bring me so much joy. And I hope this show can bring some joy to you as well. I can't believe

we finished the book. I don't know about you, but to me it went by so fast.

But last episode, we read The End of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the very happy ending for most of the characters, at least.

And today we're going to talk a little bit about it and kind of wrap things up so that we can move on next time to our next book,

which, as I'm sure you know by now,

is going to be a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. So let me just explain a little bit

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