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The Laughter Thief, by Elizabeth Tan www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5XZPMXL FREE until June 23rd What if happiness is not something that can be captured, or stored away? Rather something that only grows when it is shared… Deep within a magical forest lives Fleck, a gentle grunt whose nightly job is to care for the woodland while the rest of the world sleeps. Though surrounded by beauty, Fleck carries a quiet loneliness that follows him wherever he goes. Believing that happiness can be gathered like treasure, he begins collecting the laughter of children in glass jars. Every giggle, chuckle, and joyful squeal becomes part of his growing collection. Surely, he thinks, enough laughter will finally fill the emptiness inside him. But as Fleck’s collection grows, something unexpected happens.