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Tonight, I would be reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 1

All happy families resemble one another.

Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Everything was upset in the Oblonsky's house.

The wife had discovered an intrigue between her husband

and their former French governess, and declared that she would not continue to live under the same

roof with him. This state of things had now lasted for three days, and not only the husband and wife,

but the rest of the family and the whole household suffered from it.

They all felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that any group of people who had met together by chance at an inn would have had more in common than they.

The wife kept her own rooms, the husband stopped away from home all day. The children ran about all over

the house uneasily. The English governess quarreled with the housekeeper and wrote to a friend

asking if she could find her another situation. The cook had gone out just at dinner time the day

before and had not returned, and the kitchen maid and coachman had given notice.

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