We Gambled Our Inheritance

Scratching lottery cards at the campground

Brenda Mahler
The Memoirist
Published in
4 min readMay 24, 2023

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Photo by Laurine Bailly on Unsplash

When Dad passed away, my brother and I procrastinated, but eventually, time demanded we rummage through the contents of the storage shed. Undaunted by cobwebs and mouse dropping, we tackled each box as an exploration until the label “junk drawer” appeared in the black, back corner.

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Brenda Mahler
The Memoirist

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