Aurelia had been unlucky for most of her life. When she was a child she would complain about how she never won anything, about how all her classmates were picked for things before she was, about a thousand of things. She was a good student, but she was not brilliant, and she attributed everything to her lack of luck. It was an easy choice, she wouldn't give all she had and, yet, it wouldn't feel as if it were her fault.
With time she mostly forgot about it, but she would still blame bad things happening to her on her bad luck. She didn't complain out loud, though, because she knew people would run away from her. Eventually, she realized she wasn't unlucky anymore. She was a lucky girl, actually. Who would have said it, her, Aurelia, a lucky girl? Looking back she realized something, she had started being lucky as soon as she started working for it. It turned out that luck is not something you find, it is something you have to work for.
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