New Wives’ Tales for 2020

Updated superstitions and justified paranoia for the new year

Allison Kelley
2 min readJan 1, 2020

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1. Going outside with wet hair will make you catch a cold that you won’t be able to treat until your insurance premium goes down.

2. If you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for the length of time it takes you to find an in-network gastroenterologist: 7 years.

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Allison Kelley

Brooklyn-based writer raised in the Connecticut suburbs. Words at Slate, Washington Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency / subscribe: https://boththings.substack