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I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier. There's a conversation we had almost 10 years ago

on the Happier podcast and listeners repeatedly bring it up to us.

In fact, someone mentioned it to me just this week.

So in case you've missed it, I wanted to talk about it here.

Way back, in episode 78, in the listener question segment, the listener Allison asked the following

question. I recently lost my engagement ring that I had been wearing for seven years. I never

take it off, and I just happened to notice one afternoon that it was not there. I have frantically

retraced my steps and searched my office and home

trying to find this ring to no avail. I'm surprised at how upset it made me because I usually

am not sentimental about objects. But for this particular ring, my husband had saved for years

in graduate school to buy it. And like I said, I never take it off.

So unfortunately, my insurance on the ring lapsed while we moved to Florida, and not only that,

we are not in a financial position to be able to replace it if I wanted to do it at this time.

So my question for you is, how do you bounce back from an experience like that that is totally

unexpected with something that is not really replaceable?

So Allison had lost this ring, which was very precious to her, and her question was,

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