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  "createdAt": "2025-05-10T16:21:44.891Z",
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      "description": "As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.",
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      "title": "The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer",
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  "text": "“To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable. Conceiving of something as a gift changes your relationship to it in a profound way, even though the physical makeup of the ‘thing’ has not changed.”"
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