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Oh to grace how great a debtor

Yesterday morning I went to city hall to get Jack's birth certificate. When the lady at the desk asked for my ID, I reached into my purse and pulled my wallet out to show her my driver's license. A thought suddenly popped into my mind. "You're going to leave your wallet here." Or, more precisely, "If you don't put your wallet back in your purse right now, you're going to leave it here." No I won't, I thought. I'll be careful! It's on my mind now so I'll pay extra attention to it! Besides, there's no point putting it back since I'll just have to pay with a credit card that'll I have to put back in my wallet and then back in the purse. While I waited for the certificate, I took Jack out of the stroller since he was fussing and walked around with him, keeping an eye on my wallet and purse on the desk the whole time. When I went back to the desk to move the stroller out of the way for another man, they told me th