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Robert Wicks is a professor at Loyola University Maryland and the author of Bounce: Living the Resilient Life (Oxford). See full bio

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Friendship and Resilience

By Robert Wicks on August 18, 2009 in The Resilient Life

Four Friends You'll Want in Your Life Today

Peig Sayers lived in the Blasket Islands off the coast of Ireland. The winds were so great that even trees couldn't survive and she was asked, "How can you live in a place like this?" To which she responded quite simply, "It is in the shelter of each other that the people live." Read More

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