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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune?-part 6

Yesterday’s last words: bless me for the words I write… * * * My father, then, was a seafaring man who, early in life, forsook his vocation, and settled on a plantation in the colony of Virginia, where, some years thereafter, I was born, which event took place in the year 1642; and that was over a hundred years ago. Better for my father had it been, had he hearkened to the wise advice of my...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 4

yesterday’s last words I began to regard it with superstition In fact, I began to regard it with superstition. If it had made so many fortunes, surely it should be capable of making mine. The certainty that the wonderful story – I began to regard it as magic – was in the air, possessed me. As I started to walk homeward, fingering the solitary nickel in my pocket and contemplating the certainty of riding downtown in...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 3

yesterday ending words: yes,I replied, bitterly, continued today >>>> “Yes,” I replied, bitterly,”with prospects of being on the town, shortly. But you look as if things were coming your way. Tell me all about it.” “Things have been coming my way, for a fact, and it is all remarkable, when all is said. You know Sturtevant, don’t you? It’s all due to him. I was plumb down on my luck, – thinking of the morgue...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 2

yesterday ending words: he called the waiter to him,, He called the waiter to him, and, with an inimitable flourish, signed his name on the backs of the two checks, and waved him away. After that he was silent for a moment while he looked into my eyes, smiling at the astonishment which I in vain strove to conceal. “Do you know an artist who possesses more talent than I?” he asked, presently. “No. Do you happen...

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