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Heather Havrilesky
Jan 24, 2026
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A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur (1865), Claude Monet

Negative emotions are good for you. Without anger and sadness and spite, what do you become? Some kind of weird, cheerful earthworm. Nobody needs that unless they’re living in a Richard Scarry book, in which case they require a little worm buddy to help them stay calm while navigating a maze of pi…

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