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Joy is a beautiful emotion. It bubbles up inside you with a smile, a song, a kind word. It overflows in laughter, conversation, tenderness. It is peace in your very soul, the beating of a happy heart, the smile on your face. Joy is laying on your back and counting the stars just to say you tried, singing your favorite song very loudly and off-key with another, curling up in a chair with a wonderful dreamy book, driving down never-yet-taken roads because you never have before, and the smell of lemons. Joy is having your dreams come true before you realize it, going somewhere where you have to say to yourself, "I am really here!" It is lingering in bed alone dreaming hopeless romantic dreams. Joy is hot chocolate on a cold day, icy lemonade in the hot summer sun. Joy is unexpected, outrageous.