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A Hundred Years of Bad Luck: Who Was Elizabeth Smith?

A hundred years ago, Elizabeth Smith broke a looking glass. At least, that’s how she tells it. From that moment everything begins to go wrong. Her children give her sass. She stubs her toe against the kitchen door. Her hens stop laying. She makes the mistake of sitting in the thirteenth row at church and, … Continue reading “A Hundred Years of Bad Luck: Who Was Elizabeth Smith?”