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

As I have mentioned countless times, I love a fable, a paradox, Cohen, secretive adulthood, aphorism, or a teaching story.

I especially love a teaching story.

I recently read the novel Martyr by Kavei Akbar, and I highly recommend it.

I love that novel.

In it, Ali, who is the father of the main character Cyrus, reflects on a hadith he'd heard as a child.

A hadith is a recorded saying or action of the prophet Muhammad, and these have been collected in various compilations.

Ali recounts,

Once, when I was a boy, our teacher told us the hadith of the starving man. The man was

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