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Response to prayers: can be serendipitous

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From: Sunday Gazette-Mail
Date: 20030921
Author:Elsie J. Ours

I remember the first time I saw the word "serendipity." My husband and I were traveling down the east coast and were enjoying the quaint little shops along the waterfront. One shop was called "The Serendipity." I thought that was a strange name for a shop and made a note to look the word up when I got home.

The story goes, I found out, that one cold day in the mid 1700s, an Englishman, Horace Walpole, read a Persian fairy tale entitled "The Three Princes of Serendip." The princes set out to find great treasures. They did not find the treasures they sought, but they found many other valuable ...

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