Goodreads asked Melissa R. Mendelson:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Melissa R. Mendelson When I was a child, my father would take me on field trips with his school. We went somewhere, maybe to a museum, and they had that fortune teller machine, almost identical to the one in the movie, Big. I got a card, but for whatever reason, I couldn't read it. I hurried to my father and asked him to read it, and whatever it said, it scared the hell out of him. He demanded that I show him the fortune teller machine, but when I went back to where it was, it wasn't there.

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