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-Audiences laughing at all the funny parts, and going silent at the sad ones
-Reading about famous American authors of the 1970s
-A strange nostalgia for authors and characters you know well
-”A small good thing”
-Literature-inspired tattoos
-Commercials with multiracial couples
-Being able to actually hear snow falling
-Lemony hummus
-Ironing a book you accidently got wet
-Firm handshakes
-Card tables
-Petting a happy dog
-Getting a letter in the mail
-Eating the marshmallows in hot chocolate
-Smiling when a big kid calls you a nasty name... and then punching his teeth straight down his ugly neck
-Finding a "Calvin and Hobbes" strip you haven't read before.
-Looking up words that you don't know
-Not using copywritten names generically (it's a tissue, not a Kleenex; a photocopy, not a Xerox)
-Shredding paper
-Silver hairs
