Goodreads asked Alma Alexander:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Alma Alexander There was a clarivoyant type person it was the "de rigueur" thing to do to go visit, back when I was quite young - and my mom and my aunt and I all went to see her out of pure curiosity. She told me that my absolute "gift" of being unlucky in things stemmed from a family member (unidentified of course) who had "put a curse on me". There was an elaborate ritual to be done to remove the curse. I never did do it. I'm still "unlucky", but I don't know if I can really put it down to an anonymous extended family member who hated me so much that they put a hex on me - even if I believed that I had family members who were capable of doing so. But it would make for a good book...

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