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How to Respond to 'How Are You?' When You're Not OK

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'How Are You?' Has Lost All Meaning. Here's A Better Way To Greet People

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The Surprising Way You Should Answer “How Are You?”—And Why It Makes Such a Difference

I recently asked an acquaintance how she was four times in a row. Here's how to avoid getting stuck on this conversational hamster wheel. While checking in at the gym the other day, I chirped, “Hey, ...
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How to respond to 'How are you?' when you're not OK

If you would have seen Nora McInerny at her 35-year-old husband’s funeral, you might have thought she’d never looked better. That was the consensus “according to so many people,” she says, in part ...