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I WAS BORN AT 11:11

I never knew if my mother was completely serious about me being born at 11:11 until I found my birth certificate.

I get text messages from people when it is 11:11AM/PM telling me to make a wish. It's lucky? Yeah? Or something. My mother sends me the same messages but for a different reason. She only does it in the morning if she happens to be looking at the clock at 11:11AM.... which is about 2-3 times a week I'd gather. She has told me since I can remember that I was born at that time. While I enjoy the symmetry of two vertical lines split by a pair of dots, I didn't understand the lore of 11:11 until I was a bit older when I learned that a great deal of people catch the clock at that time. Apparently it has a lot to do with some hoodoo-voodoo-astrology-spirit guide kind of junk. Still, when I tell people I was born at 11:11, they always tell me how lucky I must be.

Am I? Well. I've been through and survived some stuff that should have killed me. But. I was also born in Arizona. How lucky is that?