Personal Narrative Essay: The Power Sheet

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On one hot skin blistering summer day in Bakersfield I was dying of heat exhaustion so I hopped into my 1967 Nova that has no ac and is not very good on gas and drove down to the store to get a Slurpee to quench my thirst. I was down to my last $10 so I bought 1 blueberry raspberry Slurpee which was 3.75 and I had to get a ice cream Snickers for later. So I was down to my last few dollars and I felt oddly lucky;therefore I bought a super mega lotto ticket hoping to strike it rich and win the jackpot. I was really behind on all of my bills and I needed a car that was better on gas and had ice cold AC. At the time I really did not think I would win however; when the next day came and the new numbers were out I could not believe what I was reading all my numbers were matching 05,22,23,37,47 and the mega was 22. I could not believe it! My life would never be the same.
I ran all around my house with excitement I jumped up and down screaming like a little girl,I was so happy I didn't know what to do next; then i remembered that i can google the answer. The power ball website said the gas station clerks do not carry over $900 in their stores for safety reasons;consequently it said to mail your ticket into the lottery head quarters and that you must sign your name and put your phone number on the back so they can contact
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I was not going to be fooled because I already knew that my family was already around me and the same goes to my close

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