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Story of 17 - October, 2008
My name is Rebecca. I am currently 16 years-old. When I was 7 I had a dream that I would die at the age of 17. Since then,
I have been seeing it everywhere. I never really noticed how prominent it was in my life for the first years after that. But now that
I think back, I can always remember whenever I got assigned a text book in school, it was number 17. I was always the 17th
person on the class list. I always took these as coincidences until the past year or two when the number has practically taken
over my daily routine.
I see it everywhere. At least four or five times a day, I glance at the clock and it is 17. In the past three days, I have stopped at
stop sign to let school buses go and both times it has been 17. I get in my car in the morning, It's 7:17 and I have 117 miles left
until I run out of gas. While I was looking for this website, an advertisement on the screen popped up with a number 17 fire truck
and the time read 8:17. While talking to my best friend about this walking down the hallway, we walk past the only other girl near,
number 17 jersey. So on and so on.
The number pops up in any form you could imagine. I have done some research on recurring numbers. Some believe that they are
a sign from angels. I haven't been able to come up with much for the meaning of the number
17. All I have gotten is that it means "stay straight and sober"
This makes perfect sense. See, every few months I get grounded for something. And the days preceding this grounding are filled
with the number 17. They are like little warnings. Whenever I am doing something wrong I find the number all over the place. And
a few times when I get caught, (Get that phone call from the parents demanding to know where I am) I look at the clock, something
17. In the past few months, I haven't been able to keep it to myself. I have been pointing it out to family and friends practically every
time I see it.
They have stopped calling me crazy and are now as curious as I am to find out why I see this number so often. And why, now, some
of them are starting to see it also. There is also the chance that I am attracting this number. Seeing it so often frustrates me and it
seems like the more I let it get to my head, the more it pops up. Perhaps that could be due to the law of attraction stating like attracts
like or something like that.
But basically, I'm giving a lot of attention to the number and focusing my thoughts on it, and a lot of it is being drawn into my life
because of that. I don't know. I'm still young and I hope that I will be able to figure this phenomena out. I think it's a message to
coax me along the right path which could be a good thing considering I'm young, and I can start living right before I get old and
realize it's too late but I would like to hear other stories to justify that.
-Rebecca - US
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