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5 Ways to Live by a Doctrine of Luck

5 Ways to Live by a Doctrine of Luck

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Virginia Heffernan
Jul 04, 2023
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Richard and I are with the obscenely big Heffernan clan in Country Tipperary. Ancestral home of luck.

ALEXA’S APPROACH TO prediction is a revelation: “Today you can look for sunny weather, with highs in the mid-80s.” Go to town, scan the skies! You might get lucky.

Really, what more can or should be said about the future? Look around and see what happens.…

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