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Marc Erdrich
Joey, calm down, will you,” Larry said. “You’re getting
yourself all worked up over nothing.”
“Call someone,” he insisted, sounding like a child.
“All right, I’ll call the newspaper if that will make you hap-
py.”
“Yeah, make me happy,” Joey said. He held the ticket up to
the ceiling in his outstretched hands. “Please, Lord, I’ll even go
to church for this.”
“I’d like to win just to see that,” Larry said, reaching for the
phone book.
“What are you doing?” Joey asked.
“I’m looking up the phone number,” Larry said, annoyed.
“Why?”
“Why what? Why am I looking up the phone number?”
“You’re about to become a billionaire, and you want to save
10 cents on a phone call to information?” Joey said, incredu-
lous.
“It’s not 10 cents, it’s 75 cents to call information, and that’s
beside the point. I’ve got the phone book right here.”
“Lord, forgive him, he knowest not what he does,” Joey
said, praying to the ceiling again.
“What are those numbers you picked anyway?” Joey asked,
glancing at the ticket as Larry started to dial.
“Oh yeah, I didn’t finish the story. Prime numbers. They’re
all prime numbers… except one.”
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