Maybe it wouldn't *completely* come back(life is different once you know how bad the bad stuff gets, for sure) but research *tends* to suggest that some people are born happier and, after getting through a struggle for a while tend to return to more of their...set point. (I'm sure it says lovely, optimistic things about me that most of what I know about both happiness and sex comes from other people's research.) OPP= Other People's Protocols?(Nah, not quite "Big Bang" enough to make that joke. ETA: Do you think people would have lost their minds about rock and roll so hard if the first bands were more like BareNaked Ladies and Weezer instead of Elvis? (Although, maybe, there's nothing hot about Bill Haley either. Nothing, you know, "because it's wrong", anyway, and the Usual Suspects hated him, too.)

I'm allergic to real wool, anyway

You’re allergic to sheep AND goats?

I can wear wool socks on my bare feet, but I can't wear sheep or goat wool sweaters without a thick long-sleeved shirt underneath. It's too itchy. (I guess my feet are tougher? Or they're more willing to put up with wool in order to not freeze?)

(Also, "You’re allergic to sheep AND goats?" feels like a quote from something, though I don't know what.)

You are reminding me of the time Mo Rocca commented on WWDTM that hand knot sweaters were too itchy so a bunch of listeners angrily knot and sent him sweaters to refute that claim.

I doubt that's being quoted, though