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Oct 2024
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More Happier: Call Don’t Text, the Joy o...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
About this episode

We discuss a useful lesson in communication drawn from “Real Housewives” drama. We also talk about why it’s such a relief to get up-to-date on photo albums, and we compare our views on the “Previously, on XYZ…” segments at the beginning of TV shows.

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