I hadn't been paying attention to the story about the missing woman (now found) from Des Plaines until I read this paragraph:
Her husband, Dignesh Solanki, had said his wife may have been placing a religious statue in the Des Plaines River on the day she went missing. The statue of the deity Ganesh, revered as the Hindu god of good fortune and wisdom, had broken and a religious leader told them that placing it in the water would ward off bad luck.
I didn't know it's bad luck to break a statue of Ganesh. I broke my statue of Ganesh not long after I acquired it about eight years ago. It's a good thing I'm neither superstitious nor Hindu or else I could have suffered through nearly a decade of bad luck.
11 years ago
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