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Happiness...has been so hard for so many of us. The losses especially make it hard to grow
naturally middlish-aged. The haunted empty feelings are an inheritance of mine, but I've
found that very specific tasks, very concrete acts of giving, very strong rituals of grieving
attached to beauty and religion (not even mine) and the passages of life are affirming.
Helpful. So's the samba, boxing, hiking with phony Indian guides and, as always, pounding on a
teenager or two before he gives up.
-- Liz Swados
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