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Tonight, we'll read the second part to the Secret Garden,

a novel by Francis Hodgson Burnett,

first published in 1911.

Set in England, it is now one of Burnett's most popular novels

and seen as a classic of English children's literature. In the first episode, we learn of the

unloved and unloving Mary. When Cholera breaks out, she is left all alone in the world.

She is then sent from India to England to live with her uncle,

or Chibald Craven. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Since Mary had been living in other people's houses and had no Aya.

She had begun to feel lonely and to think queer thoughts

which were new to her. She had begun to wonder why she had never

seemed to belong to anyone even when her father and mother had been alive.

Other children seemed to belong to their fathers and mothers,

but she had never really seemed to be anyone's little girl. She had had servants and food and clothes, but no

one had taken any notice of her. She did not know that this was because she was a disagreeable child,

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