
The Cottingley Fairies with Chelsey Weber-Smith
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The Role of Astrology in the Success of Mary Todd Lincoln
In the case of Mary Todd Lincoln and Nancy Reagan both of these focuses on the supernatural although very few people today would call horoscope supernatural. I don't know I guess I also would compare my own the way I talk about astrology to the way I feel like people in the story are talking about fairies because it's like do I really think that where the planets were when I was born controls my personality? When you put it that way it sounds pretty illogical but then it's like something that is a way that we organize socially we get to like when we're dating someone who's throwing up red flags we get to be like well there are cancer so of course he or she will
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