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I won the biggest lottery jackpot in state history—$384 million—but I told no one. I called my family pretending to…
While I was in the hospital recovering, my parents and sister gathered around my six-year-old adopted daughter and told her…
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My name is Jessica Miller, and at the age of thirty-eight, I stood under the oppressive gray sky at my…