Bad Luck
Noel Laflin
11-22-22
The Kennedy assassination
took place 59 years ago today, and for the longest time 10-year-old me thought
that I was partly to blame as I had worn a shirt to fifth grade that day, a
pretty shirt that had, unfortunately, brought me bad luck on two other occasions:
I had blown a spelling test a month before when wearing that shirt, and an injured sparrow that I had been
caring for died the next time I donned the shirt - and now this, the worst luck of all.
Weeks later,
I tearfully explained the situation to my mother when she asked me why I no
longer wore that particular shirt any longer. She had always assumed it had
been a favorite of mine.
It
disappeared from my closet shortly thereafter, never to be seen again, and no
further questions were asked by either party.
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