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It is my solemn duty to bring to light the sorry history
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of the Baudelaire children as it happened so many years ago.
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But you in the audience have no such obligation,
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and I would advise all our viewers to turn away immediately
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and watch something more pleasant instead.
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This story will be dreadful, melancholy and calamitous,
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a word which here means "dreadful and melancholy."
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That is because not very many happy things happened
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in the lives of the Baudelaires.
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny were intelligent children.
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Charming and resourceful, they had pleasant facial features,
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but they were extremely unlucky.