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That evening was the drawing for the Mega Millions lottery.
I opened the bookcase and found the lottery ticket I had been using as a bookmark.
Deliberately covering the numbers, I took a photo of it next to the jewelry box.
I posted on Twitter: "My daughter's birthday - just these two things left behind, both empty."
The twist came faster than I expected.
The comments were all advising me:
"Let it go, move on."
"She's not worth it."
From a flood of insults to pity and sympathy, it only took the short ten minutes of security footage.
But Dashiell wasn't just "not worth it."
I wanted her utterly ruined, wishing she'd never been born!
That night, the Mega Millions numbers were drawn.
I printed out a lottery ticket and changed the numbers to match the winning Mega Millions numbers exactly.
Then I posted it in the comments:
"I originally bought this for Serenity that day."
Everyone rushed to congratulate me.
I deliberately picked a few comments to reply to: