One morning my Dad woke up and was looking for a pen. He found one and wrote a 5 digit number: 79981. I was about 10 at the time and very inquisitive, so I asked him: “Why are you writing these numbers?”
He replied: “I had a dream, very strange. I was looking at myself in the mirror and had another mirror behind me, so I could see millions of images of myself. Then my reflection in the first mirror showed me these numbers. I think I need to play them in the Federal Lottery. Federal Lottery had printed tickets with 5 digit numbers. To win a big prize you had to match all 5. If you matched the last 4, 3 or 2 you got smaller and smaller prizes and normally just exchanged those for new tickets.
My father was very resourceful. Being a super nice person, he always talked to everyone, from the she shiner to the soccer ticket seller, and people remembered him. He always knew everyone’s name and always had “a guy” for everything. Working in crowded downtown São Paulo, he went to his Federal Lottery guy (those were sold on stands on the street) and asked for the number. The guy showed up in his office the same day with the ticket 79981. Amazing! The lottery was going to run 3 days later. I sort of forgot about it for a few days. Then one evening, getting back inside the house I found my Dad staring at the ticket. “Dad, what happened? Did you win?” He replied: “No. I misunderstood my dream. The winning number was 18997. I guess the mirror meant that I had to reverse the order of the digits.”
David Almeida, April 12, 2015
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Wow!!!!
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