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. On tonight's episode, we'll be reading from

Natalie Page. It is a book by Catherine Haverland Taylor and looks at the early years of a young girl's life

and her passion for baseball.

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Chapter 1 How It Began

I think it is strange how the scenes surrounding big events stay in your memory and sometimes with years they become more

clear than the happening which impressed them i know this because i remember a big four-posted bed

and a lot of people around it crying and then I remember someone lifting me up to kiss the woman who was on the bed

but I do not remember how she looked and she was my mother she died at that time and now I only recall the crying people and the big four-posted bed and thinking it funny that a bed should wear petticoats.

It had a valance on it, you see, and I evidently had not noticed it before.

Just in that same way, I remember coming to live with Uncle Frank Randolph who is my mother's brother and all

I remember about that is whiskers and the fact that it was raining. And now, somehow, when I think of home and saying

goodbye to it, all I can see is swirling yellow leaves and the dust and peanut shells and bags

that were flying in the wind around the station.

But I must start this story properly.

It really all began the day I rode a bicycle down the courthouse steps on a bet.

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