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happy birthday to my first book

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Joy Marie Clarkson ☀️
Feb 15, 2025
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Three years ago today my first book Aggressively Happy: a realist’s guide to believing in the goodness of life was released. To celebrate, today I share part of the opening chapter.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

—Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

It was December 31, 6:45 a.m. My roommate was still fast asl…

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