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Fall Asleep Aboard the RMS Olympic (1913) | Sleep Story
In the summer of 1913, a family settles into third class aboard the RMS Olympic, crossing the Atlantic beneath electric lights and the steady hum of enormous engines. In their small cabin, a little girl has begun collecting the oranges served at dinner.
If you drift off somewhere in the middle of the ocean, nothing will have been missed.
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Tonight: We spend the quiet middle days of an Atlantic crossing aboard one of the great ocean liners of the Edwardian age. There are white-painted cabins, freshly baked bread in the dining saloon, and long afternoons watching the ship's wake disappear…
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