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<p>[QUOTE="Anna Johndrow, post: 2198500, member: 7900"]So much is now explained! "It's terrible luck to keep a broken Buddha." In 1985 I went to China for 5 weeks and hired a painter to paint the interior of my house while I was gone so I wouldn't have to smell the paint. He knocked over a large Buddha that had belonged to my great grandparents (missionaries in Burma) and thought he could g[ATTACH=full]254060[/ATTACH] lue the head back on with contact cement. I have stored this beheaded Buddha all these years hoping to be able to afford getting him repaired. Maybe I would have had better luck in life if I had just let him pass on! (Although I do not really complain about my luck. It's been pretty decent.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anna Johndrow, post: 2198500, member: 7900"]So much is now explained! "It's terrible luck to keep a broken Buddha." In 1985 I went to China for 5 weeks and hired a painter to paint the interior of my house while I was gone so I wouldn't have to smell the paint. He knocked over a large Buddha that had belonged to my great grandparents (missionaries in Burma) and thought he could g[ATTACH=full]254060[/ATTACH] lue the head back on with contact cement. I have stored this beheaded Buddha all these years hoping to be able to afford getting him repaired. Maybe I would have had better luck in life if I had just let him pass on! (Although I do not really complain about my luck. It's been pretty decent.)[/QUOTE]
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