Tessie Hutchinson's Tradition Of Winning The Lottery

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Yay! you won the lottery!!.... but you're not happy. Last year on September 7, 1945 the people of Hershey Town hosted their annual lottery. This lottery is a little twisted. If you win this lottery you are stoned to death, but it’s tradition. This year's “lucky” victim was Tessie Hutchinson the mother of 3 children. It was a beautiful day but everybody was glum. Her good friend Mrs. Delacroix tells us “We were very close… two peas in a pod, but it happens every year guess it was her time.”
If you're wondering how the lottery works it starts with everyone in town drawing a piece of paper from a black box. After everyone has drawn whoever has the black-dotted paper has to have each member of their family come up. They will count the number

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