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Something that I really loved about the way that I grew up is we had a family business. It was a donut shop

like all other Cambodians out there. I was there from probably when I was eight

years old up until I was about 26, you know, even when I moved to the city I would go back and

help out at the shop. But there was always that kind of connection with us and

the clients and you know all the customers that would come in you knew them by name

you knew their grand name you knew their

grandkids you knew their favorite donut their favorite color their birthday you know they'd

come in on holidays and buy boxes and boxes of dozens of donuts to give off to their

family and so it's like it was

really like that connection that I fostered from those clients and that's something

that's really been difficult during this time because it's hard to connect with your

normal clients and normal people because everybody's completely masked.

Conversations with strangers aren't quite what they used to be these days.

We're staying at home as much as possible and when we do step out wearing a mask and social distancing

that can really change the feel of our interactions.

I'm Dacker Keltner and this is the science of happiness.

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