In 1931, seven-year-old Charlie Munger was playing with a little girl his age when they were attacked by a stray dog. The girl was bitten, contracted rabies and later died. Munger was unscathed. “That damn dog wasn’t three inches from me,” he later remarked. “All my life I’ve wondered: why did it bite her instead of me? It was sheer luck that I lived and she died.”
That episode would inform