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Hello.

Welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

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.

Tonight's reading comes from Middlemarch,

written by George Alliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans,

and first published in 1871.

This story is part of a series that explores life in a provincial English town.

My name is Teddy, and I am to help people everywhere get a good night's rest.

Sleep is so important, and my mission is to help you

get the rest you need. The podcast is designed to play in the background while you slowly fall

asleep. For those of you who are new to the podcast, you may not know that it started from my own

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