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Sadly, my poor feet have been beaten up by all the <a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/2010/05/cardio-bunny-weekly-report-2/">cardio</a> I’ve been doing.&#160; </p>  <p align="center"><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/28rubin_CA1articleLarge1.jpg"><img title="28rubin_CA1-articleLarge" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="303" alt="28rubin_CA1-articleLarge" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/28rubin_CA1articleLarge_thumb1.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a>{Photograph from <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/fashion/28rubin.html">The New York Times</a></em> by Ruby Washington} </p>  <p align="left">The dress also matches the cover of one the more pleasant books I read this month <em>The Happiness Project.&#160; </em>Gretchen Rubin’s memoir is really touching and she has great advice like <em>fighting right with your sweetie,</em> <em>keeping true rules</em> and <em>imitating a spiritual master</em>.&#160; </p>  <p align="left">I suppose if there was ever a spiritual master I wanted to imitate it would be her:&#160; Rubin is a Yale trained lawyer, Editor in Chief of the Yale Law Review, and a Sandra Day O’ Connor law clerk.&#160; And who doesn’t love a red-head? 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