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Tonight, we'll be reading the opening to Jane Austin's 1811 sense and sensibility.

It was published anonymously.

By a lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been.

It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters as they must move

with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up.

Let's get cozy.

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

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Chapter 1, The Family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex.

Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park in the center of their property where for many generations They had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good

opinion of their surrounding acquaintance.

The late owner of this estate was a single man life, had a very advanced age,

and who, for many years of his life,

had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

But her death, which happened 10 years before his own,

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