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Dear Reader,
The decorative deco dish on my kitchen counter is filled with nickels, dimes, quarters and pennies. Seems like only yesterday there wasn't more than fifty cents in it. Now it's overflowing, so it's time to go to the store and use the coin machine. The excitement of dumping my loose change in the coin machine must be a little bit like playing the lottery. I haven't ever bought a ticket, but I've seen people purchase tickets at the customer service counter in the market. Scratch, scratch, scratch, and two Hail Marys later, if they're lucky, they might be collecting a few dollars.
It's a game of chance, a game of long shot possibilities.
But my "lottery" is a sure thing. No tickets to buy. Just dump out that art deco dish, turn on the machine and soon it spits out my winning ticket. No paying out money up front, just pay a small percentage at the end.
What fun. Even the customer service woman is celebrating with me when I hand her my ticket. "Wow, $184.23, you've been saving girl! You hit the jackpot."
Yes, I'd have to agree. I did hit the jackpot. Not only is there new-found money in my pocket, I also "won" three paper clips, one safety pin and the back of an earring I'd been looking for the past three weeks. Yes, I definitely went home a winner.
And I'm not the only winner. Congratulations to the latest Rattlesnake Egg winners: Stephanie Morgan, Staci Fritz, Margaret Ashworth, Debi Croy and Leonora Stein. Have fun!
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
www.muffinsandmayhem.com
AUTHORBUZZ: A LADY CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO KASHGAR (Fiction) by Suzanne Joinson
English missionaries Eva, Elizabeth and Millicent travel to the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar in 1923 to establish a mission in the heart of the desert. Evangeline's reasons for leaving the restrictions of English society behind are not at all straightforward. Meanwhile, in present day, who has drawn Arabic script and illustrations of beautiful birds on the wall outside Frieda's house and why is there a stone, all the way from the Gobi desert, found in a bedroom in London?
Go to: http://authorbuzz.com/dearreader click on A LADY CYCLIST'S GUIDE TO KASHGAR to read more and to email author Suzanne Joinson, you'll get a reply.
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