Me, too! What a great story..I love Black-eyed peas and always have them on New Year's Day. Happy New Year!!! My mother-in-law used to put 12 dried black-eyed peas in her change purse and she threw away one the first of each month. She said that was also for good luck. I never knew anyone else that did that so don't know if it is practiced anywhere. I grew up in Texas and we all ate those peas!