Lottery

A few months ago, I found a lottery ticket sitting on top of a pizza box from Papa John's. Earlier that day, my wife and I had been talking about what we would do if we won the lottery. We almost never talked about the lottery, and we'd probably bought tickets only three times in our lives, all just for fun. And now, a lottery ticket had somehow appeared before us. My first thought was, What a strange thing for Papa John's to give away. Then I realized there was no way a pizza chain would give away lottery tickets for free. Was it a mistake by someone at the store or the delivery guy? I had no clue. Maybe I just didn't want to dig too deep into where the ticket came from. It was Saturday evening, so the winning numbers would be announced in a few hours. I checked the date on the ticket one more time to make sure it wasn't from the previous week. "What are the chances of a lottery ticket showing up right after we talked about winning?" I said. My wife asked what I would do if we…

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