I was born with what I was once told as a child is called a ‘lucky apple’ in my eye. Ostensibly just a little brown marking in my right pupil. I was told it meant I would have good fortune, and being a little depressed at the knowledge that I was a ‘Thursday’s child, full of woe’, I have clung hard to that concept ever since. My son asked me about it th…
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