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Opinion: Kids’ Toys and Fortune Cookies Wield Fear, Not Fun, When Your Child Is Dying

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Courtesy Allison Quinn

I’ve suddenly begun to react violently to fortune cookies—as if they’re contagious, as if their vague predictions and mindf–kery warrants a hazmat response.

Like on Christmas Day, when the last thing a family facing terminal illness needs is nutritionless, factory-made soothsaying along with their Chinese takeout.

“Get the f–k out of my house!” I (may as well have) yelled as I frantically stuffed a bag of the cookies into an overflowing trash can.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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