Often, when you’re dreading something, it can feel as if there is just no possible way that whatever you’re dreading will actually happen—as if some goddess of serendipity will surely swoop in and stop it in the nick of time. The test you haven’t studied for will be rescheduled for next week; the guy you’ve really been meaning to break up with will tell you he’s decided to move to India to embark upon a life of meditation but will always love you and remember the times you shared; the cockroaches in your apartment will be revealed to have been a very involved art project your roommate was
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