# How have you been blessed/lucky?  A thread to be thankful.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 2, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-you-been-blessed-lucky-a-thread-to-be-thankful/823887 "2018-11-02T13:38:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-you-been-blessed-lucky-a-thread-to-be-thankful/823887/21 "2018-11-02T23:22:44Z")

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I am grateful to have been born a woman in this place (U.S.) and time. I am grateful for the career I had for many years, and the judicious financial decisions I made which enabled me to retire at age 47 when I realized it was no longer the profession I had trained for. I am grateful that my cancer turned out to most likely be a speed bump on the road o’life, although I’m not out of the woods just yet.

And I am grateful to Jesus Christ for living and dying for me. I realize many of you don’t share this belief, and I do respect that.

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