Post 1630. Sunday February 11
Her application was successful. Today, a new job complete with accommodation.
Having packed her few possessions into a bag, she looked around the room where she’d led her solitary existence. Empty drawers hung open, the bed stripped. An old grey television, her only companion, sat on a crate in a corner beside a lank, stained curtain hanging limply across a grimy window. The only sound, a drip-drip-dripping tap.
A clunk echoed down the murky hall as she closed the door behind her. She called out a last goodbye to the seemingly invisible people who lived their quiet lives behind closed doors.
Stepping over a heap of junk mail scattered across the crooked doormat, she opened the door to a new life beyond her grim chamber of loneliness.
A shaft of sunlight welcomed her; a ray of hope, a sign of better things to come. A lady walking her dog smiled, baby in a pushchair waved. A gipsy woman peered from beneath her scarf, winked and pushed a bunch of lucky heather into her palm.
Something bright and shiny caught her attention in the gutter. She picked it up. I was a lucky charm. Her lucky charm. The one she lost many years ago.
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Keith's Ramblings 
A fascinating tale, like the two half’s of her lucky charm.
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She was due some l.think! Thanks Michael
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Things have definitely taken a turn for the better. Sounds like she has done well to survive and deserves a hopefully brighter future.
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I’d like to think so. Cheers Iain
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Wow! Finding the lucky charm was indeed magical.
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It certainly was. Thanks Reeena
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What a cheerful story, I like it! Finding a lost lucky charm, that pretty much counts as a miracle, I’d say.
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They don’t come much closer than that! Thanks, Joy.
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So glad that things are looking up for her!
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They certainly are. Thanks, mimi .
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Well, well, Keith, you are in a good mood this week!
Good story, sir, full of joie de vivre
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Indeed I am CE! Merci mon ami.
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Lovely uplifting tale. The only question that remains is: Did her luck turn because she found the lucky charm, or did she find the lucky charm because her luck turned? 🙂
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Great story.
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