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The importance of happy memories: Joan Brady in a selfie with her siblings, the first photo of just the four of them since childhood.

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Nurturing Happy Memories

For some, memories of just a few happy moments provide arsenal for enduring.

“It’s my few happy memories that keep me going,” a young woman who had grown up in foster care told me a few months ago. To be honest, today I’m a little foggy on exactly what her happy memories even were. They weren’t monumental experiences or achievements. They were simply moments in time when she felt happy.

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