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A journalist often meets unhappy people in dire circumstances. Accidents, murders, wars, natural disasters, protests and recessions are not the kind of events that produce much joy, so you tend to remember those rare times when you were a witness to happiness.
Three stories stand out in my 50 years of reporting for the sheer jubilation of the people I saw and interviewed.
The first was on a crowded dockside in