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Before you eat an apple, take the stem and twist it around
until it comes off. Every time you make a twist, say a letter of
the alphabet, and the last letter that you say when the stem
breaks will be the first letter of the name of your husband.

Submitter comment: Christine did this with her friends when she was younger to
see what her husband's name would be.

Where learned: MICHIGAN

Subject headings:

BELIEF -- Plant
BELIEF -- Marriage
BELIEF -- Word Letter
BELIEF -- Use of Object

Date learned: 00001970S

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