Lots of things that make people happy are intended to make people happy. For example, the bagels and lox at Bagels Plus and the Pad Thai at the Thai Star in North Conway are great ethnic fare – just as their creators intended. Laura Knoy on New Hampshire Public Radio wants to do insightful interviews and she does. These things are intended to make me happy and they do. The purpose of this column is to identify some things that on the surface are troublesome, but when you look more closely they make us smile.
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