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Little acts of KINDNESS

As lockdown restrictions finally begin to lift, I’ve realised how much I’ve missed things like hugging friends and taking foreign holidays, but I also miss the little things that can make a day brighter, like holding a door open for a stranger, having a chat with someone at the supermarket without masks hiding our smiles, and generally feeling like part of a great, mingling, co-operative community.

Research has shown that good deeds boost the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine, and German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once described kindness as ‘the golden chain by

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