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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

Recently I did a speaking event in Tupelo, Mississippi and something happened that made me very happy.

Though I'm not sure it makes everyone happy.

I arrived that afternoon and that night I was asleep in my hotel bed when in the deepest night I was awakened by the sound of a railroad whistle as it passed through the town.

I could hear it loud and then softer as it raced into the distance.

Now I imagine some people in that hotel weren't particularly glad to be woken up by that whistle.

But for me it made me so happy.

I was instantly transported back to my childhood of being 10 years old, tucked in the spare room in my grandparents' house in North Platinum, Nebraska.

We'd hear the railroad in the middle of the night just like that.

My grandfather was an engineer on the Union Pacific Railroad, so I felt a special sense of pride and connection to that railroad sound.

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