{"id":1491,"date":"2011-01-09T08:06:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2011-01-07T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:03:07","slug":"balanced-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/09\/balanced-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"Balanced Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as we did some purging of our closets a few months ago, we found a bunch of boxes that we had not touched since we moved into the condo in 2004.<\/p>\n<p> In one of them, there was a broken hand mirror. We jokingly said that our run of 7 years of bad luck would finally come to an end in 2011 then.<\/p>\n<p> The thing is &#8211; I&rsquo;m not joking here. Whenever something goes wrong for us, it comes in 3&rsquo;s. Always. 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