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I'm a winner!

A few weeks ago, I won a radio call in competition.

"Congratulations! You're the 101st caller in the 101..." the voice on the telephone said.

That's as far as the voice got.

I was actually trying to call my doctor's office to schedule an appointment and I had fumble-fingered the number three or four times already.  So by the time my brain thought, "Wait.... What..?!"  I had already hung up and started dialing again.

But my lucky streak did not run out!  The local library had a summer reading program; any adult who read four books received a Panera coupon (yea!  Panera!) and was entered in a drawing for miscellaneous stuff.

Yours truly is now the proud possessor of this First Lines of Literature mug*.

And tomorrow, I will buy a lottery ticket.



*Jealous? Get yours at www.philosophersguild.com

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