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/ ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪti /
serendipity
noun
The occurrence of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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“A wrong turn in Lisbon led me to the only bookshop I've ever cried in. I wasn't looking for it. It was looking for me.”
Horace Walpole, 1754
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