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I don't have a lucky charm but I have a key ring on my keys that has a lovely story behind it which reminds me to always be kind and helpful to strangers because I know how it feels to be helpless and lost in a foreign country and how horrible it feels not knowing what to do. The key ring says "Cordillera de los Andes" and "Chile" on it and has a sketch of the Andes on it - I was boarding a train going from Dusseldorf airport to Essen train station and this Chilean man and his wife didn't speak much English or German and were looking bewildered at a map so through the power of gesturing and laughter I managed to establish they were also going to Essen but didn't know how to get there so I sat with them and spoke a mixture of broken Spanish, English and German and found out they were going to a conference at a hotel near where I had first lived when I arrived, so we got off at the right stop and I took them over to a taxi and got them a city map from the kiosk and the guy was so grateful he gave me his key ring and told me to have a prosperous and happy life, and it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me the whole time I lived there, it makes me smile every time I look at the key ring.

So yeah, it's not so much a lucky charm but just a nice memento of a really good memory that always inspires me to be a better person