A Heart Misfired
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After the young officer Edward Shaw took first place in a high-profile shooting exhibition attended by senior officials, his family adopted a rather peculiar tradition.
At the annual family banquet, he would perform a blindfolded shooting. Whichever woman's token his bullet struck was taken as a sign that she would become his fiancée.
Determined to marry him, I placed the handkerchief I had carefully chosen as close to him as possible.
Yet, for three consecutive years, his shots hit nothing at all.
