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Hello and welcome to happier a podcast where we talk about ideas for how to make our lives

happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.

This week we'll talk about gift giving with our annual gift guide for suggested gifts,

and we will discuss a useful know-yourself better question related to gifts. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, the five senses, and human nature, and I'm in my little home office

in New York City, and joining me today from LA is my sister Elizabeth Craft, who I know is far

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