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Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading Chapter 16 and 17 of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LaRue.

So let your eyes fall heavy, and your breath soften, as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 16. Madanjiri's astounding revelations as to her personal relations with the opera ghost.

Before following the commissary into the manager's office, I must describe certain extraordinary

occurrences that took place in that office, which Remi and Mercia had vainly tried to enter,

and into which Montior Richard and Mon Charmin had locked themselves with an object which the reader

does not yet know, but which it is my duty as an historian to reveal without further post-ponement.

I have had occasion to say that the manager's mood had undergone a disagreeable change for some time

past, and to convey the fact that this change was due not only to the fall of the chandelier

on the famous night of the Gala performance. The reader must know that the ghost had calmly been

paid his first 20,000 francs. Oh, there had been wailing and gnashing of the teeth indeed,

and yet the thing had happened as simply as can be. One morning, the managers found on their

table an envelope addressed to Montior OG, private, and accompanied by a note from OG himself.

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