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“The Mantra ‘It Can Always Get Worse’ Reminds Me to Appreciate the Positive.”

Happiness interview: Piper Kerman. I’d heard a lot about Piper Kerman’s book, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, even before I bought my copy. I was intrigued with her story: more than ten years after agreeing to deliver a large cash payment for a drug ring, she ended up spending a year in a minimum-security …