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Emily Drumm
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The tang of gas and car exhaustion could not distract her from the
spit, gum, and cigarette butts that
coated the ground. Grease and fuzzy
mold poured out of the dumpster in
the back and pooled on the cement
swirling together to create a sleazy
green puddle that resembled chewed
up spinach. Cars spurted, swooped,
and scooted in and out of the pumping stations. Impatient customers
beeped their horns and spat insults
while waiting. Pumping gas in the
cold, stale air, Casey Denys thought
nothing extraordinary could happen,
but thirty feet away a lady sat ominously in her shadowed Escalade.
Suddenly the lady waved her hands
and shouted, “Miss, please, come
here!” to Denys. Leisurely, she made
her way over to the stranger, not
knowing what to expect.
As Deny recalls, the conversation
went like this:
“You have a very strong aura. I
must read your palms. Please, you
have an interesting adventure in
your future. Your love life is waiting.
When you walked by you gave off
such an intense feeling. Please, let’s

do the session right here,” the lady
said.
“I don’t have any money with me- I
spent it all on gas,” Denys said as her
heart was beating faster than the gas
pump.
“Then here, please, please take my
card,” The lady said.
Taking the card, Denys turned and
walked away.
“I don’t know if what happened
was real. When I went back to my
car I was so excited. I wanted to go
see her and have my fortune told.
Then my friends told me that the
whole thing could be a scam, and I
believed them,” Denys said. “I still
wanted to have my palm read.”
One way a psychic can foretell
the future is through the study of
the palm. Through soul and mind,
a palm reader can tell your nature,
personality, will, desires, relationships, future, etc. The three main
lines of the palm that most people
have read are the head, the heart,
and the life line.
Ashly Hagan recalls the first time
she had her palm read. Hagan does
not believe that one person can possess the ability to predict the future
through any means. She feels that
supernatural abilities are impossible to acquire, and psychics make

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money through lucky guesses. A lot
of the times, psychics pay close attention to body language, reaction,
thoughts, words, and actions. By
combining all of these elements, a
person can determine a practical set
of events placed in the future based
on context.
“Palm readers or psychics are cool,
but I don’t believe that what they say
is true. It is easy to make something
up about a person’s life to interest
them into giving you their money.
When my palm was read, the lady
told me I was going to have a long,
happy life. I could have figured that
out myself,” Hagan said.
While some are non-believers,
others genuinely imagine that these
powers are true. It may be possible
to hold the power to see the future.
It may also be a scam. How does it
work? How can lines on a palm be
the key to my future? There is no
scientific explanation for such a gift.
Very little research has been done
on the subject. All that can be said is
that it’s difficult to know for sure unless experienced firsthand. Psychic
abilities can be acquired through
practice, but it is very unlikely that
one is born so special that he or she
can anticipate the future.

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