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How are the myths of the past relevant to the present?

The Bridge to China

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The Scary Story of the Thumb Cutter

"This is not an ancient thing. This is like something people made up in the last few decades," he says. "If you say some scary thing in the dark and look into a mirror three times, you'll see like the day that you're going to die." The author's daughter stopped sucking her thumb when she was five years old at the start of the pandemic.

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