Well I finally did it. I was on a camping trip for a few days and went to a convenience store for some gas and a cappuccino.<\/p>\n
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I had seen those tickets a million times before and, to be honest with you, I had actually no idea how to play them.<\/p>\n
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Friends of mine play the lottery faithfully every time they have a chance. Others don’t play at all. I included myself in the latter until today.<\/p>\n
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So after we gassed up, my “experienced” lottery player friend and I went in and I was told – step by step – what to ask for.<\/p>\n
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I felt like I was in elementary school again learning how to do something for the first time.<\/p>\n
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It was relatively painless and my few dollars went to the experience. Just some numbers appear on the ticket. I understand that tomorrow I can find out if I won or not.<\/p>\n
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So, I bought my first lottery tickets and now I know how to play.<\/p>\n
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I’m not sure where you stand on playing the lottery. I guess you either love it or hate it. I do know that, for those who play it, they like the chance they take…a few dollars for a chance at a big jackpot…and a feeling they are helping out education in SC in some way.<\/p>\n
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I’m not sure if I’ll play again. I will check to see if any of my numbers matched.<\/p>\n
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Humh. What will I spend it on if I win?<\/p>\n
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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that, if you play the lottery, you will be a winner some day. Enjoy the experience and play responsibly.<\/p>\n \n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well I finally did it. I was on a camping trip for a few days and went to a convenience store for some gas and a cappuccino. I had seen those tickets a million times before and, to be honest with you, I had actually no idea how to play them. Friends of mine play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,22,16,27,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-entertainment","category-friendship","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-releationships-general","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}