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Mar 2021
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Little Happier: Who’s Happier? My Husban...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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One of the best ways to make ourselves happier is to make other people happier. I was made happier by my gesture of loving in tracking down my husband’s iPod than he was made happy by getting it back. Do good, feel good.

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