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Give me a really good paragraph explaining what this means: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

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In other words: happy families share a common set of attributes which lead to happiness, while any of a variety of attributes can cause an unhappy family. This concept has been generalized to apply to several fields of study.
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