The Finished Story (Premium Episode Preview)
Drift Off - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Joanne D'Amico
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This is a preview of a bonus episode that is available on Drift Off Premium.
Tonight I will be reading a story by Lucy Maud Montgomery called 'The Finished Story'. A bittersweet love story that shows us when we try to protect a loved one from the pain of loss and heartache, we can actually end up hurting them even more. So lay back...relax...and enjoy the story!
Sweet dreams...
Joanne
Music in this episode is 'Sleep Waves' by Year of the Deer via https://www.epidemicsound.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Drift Off, I'm your host Joanne and you're listening to a bonus episode called |
| 0:06.4 | The Finish Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
| 0:10.3 | You can listen to the whole story and other bonus episodes while enjoying intro and ad |
| 0:15.5 | free listening by becoming a Drift Off Premium member. |
| 0:19.4 | Go sign up at driftoff.supercast.com or see the link in the show notes that's driftoff.supercast.com |
| 0:30.0 | Tonight Storytelling is The Finish Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
| 0:49.6 | A bittersweet love story that shows us when we try to protect a loved one from the pain |
| 0:55.2 | of loss and heartache, we actually end up hurting them even more. |
| 1:02.7 | And so is always my friend, settling comfortably under the covers. |
| 1:13.4 | Take a full comfortable breath and as you exhale, relax and let go. |
| 1:26.2 | Allow any tension to just melt away. |
| 1:33.2 | Letting your body sink deeper and deeper down into the softness of your bed. |
| 1:43.0 | There is nothing else to do and nowhere else to be. |
| 1:51.1 | So just lay back, relax and enjoy the story. |
| 2:19.4 | She always sat in a corner of the west veranda at the hotel, knitting something white and |
| 2:25.6 | fluffy, or pink and fluffy, or pale blue and fluffy, always fluffy at least and always |
| 2:33.4 | dainty, shalves and scarves and hoods the things were I believe. |
| 2:40.0 | When she finished one, she gave it to some girl and began another. |
| 2:45.8 | Every girl at Harborlight that summer wore some distracting thing that had been fashioned |
| 2:51.3 | by miscellaneous slim, tireless white fingers. |
| 2:56.8 | She was old with that beautiful, serene old age which is as beautiful in its way as youth. |
| 3:04.8 | Her girlhood and womanhood must have been very lovely to have ripened into such a beauty |
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