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Lemonada.

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

As I have mentioned many times, too many times, I love proverbs,

aphorisms, Zencoens, and paradoxes.

If you share this love, you may be interested in my new book,

Secrets of Adulthood, Simple Truths for our Complex Lives. It's a collection of the secrets of adulthood I've learned over the years, usually the hard way. If this description intrigues you,

you can pre-order the book and learn more at happiercast.com slash secrets.

Pre-orders really boosts the fate of the book, so if you pre-order, I very much appreciate it.

Along with all these other things that I love, I also love traditional fables, parables,

folk tales, and any kind of teaching story, and I have a huge collection that I've gathered over the years.

For instance, in earlier episodes of A Little Happier, I've retold many famous teaching stories,

such as the haunting story about the appointment in Samara, the story of the greedy monkey,

the story of the man with the crowded and messy house, and the parable of the growing heap.

Here's a traditional teaching story that I've been thinking about a lot lately. It has many

variations, so I've written my own version. I'll call this story The Villagers and the Crocodile.

Once upon a time, there was a well-ordered little village by a wide, beautiful river.

The villagers there depended on the river for its water and its fish, and they often crossed

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