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I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep. On tonight's episode of The Bore You to Sleep podcast,

we're going to be reading from The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

This book's a classic and perfect to fall asleep too.

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lie back and relax and enjoy the readings the secret garden chapter one there is no one left. When Mary Lennox was sent to Missile

Waite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking

child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little

thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow

because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another.

Her father had held a position under the general English government and had been busy and ill himself.

And her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.

She had not wanted a little girl at all.

And when Mary was born, she handed her over to the care of an Aya, who was made to understand

that if she wished to place the Mem Sahib, she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible.

So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby,

she was kept out of the way.

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