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John never won anything. It wasn’t for lack of trying. He would bet on anything and everything, he would call in every time there was a competition and he would beg his mother to buy him lotto tickets since he was underage. It didn’t matter. he never was caller 13, or 23, and he never won a single bet. On Fridays, you would see him throw out the mass of losing tickets and immediately start in on his mother for more. His mother tried to stem the tide, she really did, but John would alway find ways around her rules and she didn’t want him to stumble into the wrong alley looking for discounts, or free offers. So the gambling continued unabated.
This Friday, however, was different. John sat in front of the T.V, eagerly awaiting the announcement of the Friday winners. He ran through the list he had made each time they called the number. Ten disappointing minutes later, he was back in the store with a grubby fistfull of money and a smile. As he browsed through the tickets, looking for the "
He laughed, but took it off the rack. "Just for fun,
When he got home, he locked himself in his room and got out his "official scratch-
He then remembered there was one more row to scratch. He held his breath as he scratched off the first one. A Six. He checked the little guide that proclaimed the value of each prize and it stated it all caps "MAJORa PRIZE!
They packaged up the scratcher carefully, bubble wrapping carefully as per Johns paranoia and sent it off to the address labeled on the card. John waited every day for hours at the mailbox, and when, a week later, a large package arrived, he thought that he would die from excitement. Inside the box, there were three, smaller boxes, one reading "MAJORa PRIZE!
The other two read "SMALL PRIZE,
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