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The Luck Ritual Gap: What Superstition Misses About Blessing

The first year I kept a blessings journal, I also had a small brown pebble in my coat pocket. I had picked it up from a churchyard the week my father was in hospital, and I did not go outside without it for almost eight months.

MOMartha OseiSep 10, 2026Faith and Doubt
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