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Tonight, we\u2019ll read the second chapter titled \u201cA Merry Christmas\u201d to \u201cLittle Women\u201d by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1868.\n\nFollowing the lives of the four March sisters\u2014Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy\u2014the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her sisters.\xa0\n\nIn Chapter 1, the March sisters lament that they won\u2019t receive Christmas presents as their family has fallen into poverty. They discuss a Christmas play they are going to put forth, and their mother arrives with a letter from their father who is away in the Civil War. They resolve to practice\xa0their Christian faith\u2019s values in their daily lives in order to rise above their material complaints.\xa0\n\n\u2014 read by 'V' \u2014\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices