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Superstition #256

Take two shoots of live-forever and pin them together on the wall. If they grow towards each other, the couple will marry; if away, they will become estranged.

Nantucket, Mass., and Western Massachusetts.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 256.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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