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Can your heart grow three sizes? A doctor reads 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
The Grinch as depicted in the recently released movie 'The Grinch.'Illumination Entertainment

At the beginning of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the green, pot-bellied, feline-faced Grinch is a bitter, foul-tempered misanthrope whose heart is “two sizes too small.” In the middle of the story, he plots to...

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