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A group of friends sat in a circle on the beach in Huntington, N.Y., one recent night to talk about their progress cultivating tranquility. Initially, it hadn’t gone that well, said Gerard Healy. He’d tried to kayak but the boat he borrowed from his sister was too small. “I got all wet and haven’t used it since,” he said.
The group of five was the Huntington Ben Franklin Circle, one of more than 70 groups that have formed around the…