Hello and welcome to a little happier. I'm Gretchen Ruben.

This video is brought to you by the Happiness Project. The book that I wrote that got me

started down my long road to happiness. I can't resist mentioning that Happiness Project

was a number one New York Times bestseller and was on the bestseller list for two years.

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I recently read a book by Delia Efron called Sister Mother Husband Dog, etc.

And Delia Efron is a writer and a screenwriter. She's also the sister of Nora Efron, who's

the very well-known American journalist and screenwriter, novelist director from Silkwood,

Winery Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle. She wrote the novel Heartburn, which I love.

And in this book, Delia Efron writes an essay called Losing Nora, which is about her relationship

with her sister Nora, and her reaction to her sister's death. Nora Efron clearly

comes across as quite a large character. And Delia Efron explains of the nature of her relationship

with her sister Nora, the intimacy that wasn't the intimacy of, I'll tell you what I'm

really feeling, but was the intimacy of, I'll open your refrigerator and take whatever

I want. I thought that was an interesting distinction. And it reminded me of something

people say about things like Facebook, you know, like, oh, who's a real friend? And

how can any person have 500 friends? And is this a real friend? And what does it mean

to like this person? Because it seems to me that there are lots of kinds of intimacy.

There are lots of kinds of friendships, lots of kinds of relationships, and they can all

enrich our lives in their different ways. There are lots of kinds of love. I'm Gretchen

Ruben, and I hope this makes your week a little happier.