The Subversive Wisdom of Old Wives' Tales'
Briefly

As a kid, I believed every last old wives' tale.I was sure that if I read in the dark I would go blind.That if I swam in the lake after a generous lunch I might sink to the bottom.That if I swallowed my bubble gum, the kind that came with a tiny comic strip, the hardened pebble of it would ferment in my stomach for the next seven years, which was a whole lifetime to me then.
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