Word: birthmark
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...always someone there reading your fortune. I mean with all different kinds of methods: some people use birds to pick leaves from the trees and bring them over to you; some people would use chopsticks; some people would just stare at you, to see if you have a birthmark here and there, and then they’d tell you a story. But these are just methods, vehicles. If you’re good, you know how to interact with people. How to interact among strangers...
...them, as he becomes deeply affected by frequent encounters with dragonflies—be it with a dragonfly paperweight with a life of its own or the mail delivery of a decorative dragonfly mobile. These incidents seem strange enough, until we learn that his wife had a dragonfly-shaped birthmark on her shoulder and an unusual interest for dragonflies. But who has a thing for dragonflies...
...instance, an 1843 letter in the collection sent to Nathaniel Hawthorne, praises his short story, “The Birthmark...