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episode we will be reading from oliver twist by charles dickens this book is about a young

orphan boy and looks at some of the things that he does in his early life and some of the twists and turns that we often face in childhood.

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tonight's episode. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Chapter 1. Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth.

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning and to

which I will assign no fictitious name there is one anciently common to most towns great or small

to wit a workhouse, and in this workhouse was born.

On a day and date, which I need not trouble myself to repeat, in as much it can be of no possible consequence to the reader in this stage of the business

at all events the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble

by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt

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