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I Won the Lottery

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It's true.  It's me.  I won the lottery. No...not that lottery.  I won the real lottery.  In fact, I've won multiple times. How does this elementary principal and educator come to write a blog about winning the lottery?  That's the best story of all.  Read on... The recent billion dollar winning ticket was sold at a grocery store about a mile from our school.  I awoke Saturday morning and read the story in our newspaper.  I texted that story to a friend and retiree from our school whose husband happens to be the manager of that store.  It was one of those, "Hey, this is a unique connection to a billion dollars" type of texts.  My wife and I went about our morning with breakfast and other household chores.  Then things got really interesting. A parent in our school texted me about a project she wants to do for the 4th graders in our school, and she happened to share that a rumor was going around that the winning ticket was purchased by a group of teachers from