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A drawing of two hearts with a long ribbon tying them together

Love and Sentiment
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When you go to a wedding, carry away with you a piece of the wedding-cake. Sleep with it under your pillow that night, and the person you dream of will be the one you are to marry.

A ring is sometimes put in the wedding-cake. The person who gets the ring will marry within a year.

The person who wishes to know whom he is to marry may settle the question in the following manner: Roll up your stockings when you go to bed at night, name them, put them under your pillow, and get into bed over the footboard, backwards. If you have a bedfellow, don’t speak a word to him after this, and the one of the two girls the stockings were named after that you dream about will be the one you are to marry.

Keep track of the white horses you see, and count them up to ninety-nine, and the next person of the opposite sex you shake hands with will be the one you are to marry.

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