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Luck is fickle - just look at lottery winners
Most of us had no clue what unlucky really meant until we hit 2020
24 May 2020 - 00:01
I've been thinking a lot about luck. It started out with how superbly unlucky the world has been this year. We thought we were so unlucky last year, with Brexit coming in and Trump not going out, the rand tanked more, and we lost some great celebrities, including famous meme Grumpy Cat (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2019-05-17-internet-star-grumpy-cat-dies-at-age-7/). How naive, we had no clue what unlucky really meant...
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