Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight, in honor of the holiday season.

Let's relax with a slight variation on one of your favorite books.

And take a browse through the 1945 Sears-Roba-Kinko, Christmas Book.

Let's see what everyone wanted for Christmas in the first year after World War II.

And just a brief note, I'm reading from an actual book this time and not an e-book,

so you might hear a few page noises. Let's begin.

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