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Oct 2019
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Little Happier: Novelist John Steinbeck ...

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project
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Novelist John Steinbeck’s decision to set his King Arthur story in the hazy “before” showed me a solution that I would never have devised—and taught me a great lesson.

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