There’s something in her devotion to these rules that sticks with me: the way you can feel like you have any control over anything. If you wish right at 11:11, it just might come true. If you cross your fingers, you are hoping, but if you hold them behind your back, it somehow makes it okay that you are lying. If you pull a soda tab back and forth and say a letter of the alphabet on each move, you can tell the first letter of your future spouse’s name.
