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Bittersweet: Finding Purpose in Sorrow, with Susan Cain

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Is It Too Early to Ask You What You Were Longing For?

Gash: Different things different times of life, which i i think is what happens with life. I'll tell you about one that happened for me kind of earlier in my life. So i used to be, before i became a writer, i was acorp lawyer,. And there came a day when the senior partnerlike knocked on my office door and sat down th a great big sigh, informed me that i would ofbe making partner. You know, it seemed to me like a big catastrophe, except that i ended up asking to take leave of absence; two hours later, i was gone from the firm. Gash: At that point, the obsession completely fell away, and i

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