For example, there is a superstition that if a gecko cries out four times, someone will die.

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The Post includes a few other examples of students who used social media to broadcast cries for help, some of which were spotted by someone who answered them and some which were not.

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Someone who never gets sick, never goes broke, never falters, never cries.

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