my father certainly played a lot of lottery I remember, and he spent a lot of time analyzing the numbers (I don't know how it worked) but he took it very seriously and although he won a few times, for all that he spent, one day on December 31, he won and we were going through economic problems and with that money from the lottery prize I spent it on food and candy for the celebration, to pay my elementary school advances and a gift for my mom. It is certainly a stupid game because I get to spend a lot (it was not that he did not fulfill his responsibilities as a father and at home, if he did, for me he was the best dad in the world) but I think that sometimes these things can consume you or take them as a "fun" not so healthy.
Very interesting your post, I'm glad to read it, I remembered my father and something very beautiful that I could live with him.
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