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How to Make Them Smile: Appreciate them for something they have done and throw a party. Nothing is better than the fact that when one's hard work is acknowledged and the person is made feel special.

In 2010 the playwright Sarah Ruhl lost her smile. It “walked off my face, and wandered out into the world,” she writes in the opening lines of her new book. Three years earlier, the same thing ...