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The Science of Happiness

Is There Someone You Need to Thank?

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Is there someone important you've never properly thanked? Award-winning children's book author, Yuyi Morales, discovers the power of writing a "gratitude letter" to the librarian who changed her life.

Link to Episode Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yzbnp9v6

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I had just had a baby with my boyfriend at the time and an American citizen.

0:52.0

I was in Mexico. When my son was two months old, my then boyfriend

0:59.2

got the news that his grandfather was very ill.

1:04.0

My future mother-in-law,

1:06.0

she was very concerned that Grandpa Ernie

1:10.0

wasn't going to be able to meet his only grandchild.

1:13.9

It was so unexpected.

1:16.3

The only person I say goodbye was to my mother

1:19.6

because everything was so fast.

1:21.9

And suddenly I was here in the United States where I was told it was my new home.

1:27.0

And I spoke no English really, just a few words.

1:31.0

I had this new baby and I couldn't communicate. So for a long time, I remember crying every day. I was lost. I didn't know what I was doing here. We moved to San Francisco.

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