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My friends often complain when they see me laughing to myself as I stare at my phone. It's not entirely their fault, I don't think it is appropriate to start giggling out of the blue without proper context. The truth is that for many years now I have been working on a list of jokes that have made me laugh out loud, I have them saved on a file in my phone. While people tend to worry about losing their contacts and pictures when they replace phones, the first thing I do when upgrading my device is making sure 'The List' is safe. It dawned on me one day that the older I was getting, the more scarce the moments that made me laugh till my stomach hurt became. This realization, like many others, came to me in my final year at medical school. I will never forget the day 'The List' was born. My memory of that moment is pretty vivid, even though it occurred more than 8 years ago. This is probably because it was the hottest day of summer that year in