The Boston Globe, November 23rd, 1991
The number has always been the working stiff's dream. Whether you are betting the illegal number with a bookie or the legal one in the state lottery, you are playing odds that you know are against you, but there is always the maybe, just maybe. Let the big boys and girls play the stock market. The number is for the neighborhood. The number is for the down-and-out who have nothing else to lose. It's for the person who works at a job that will never make him or her rich and who keeps thinking that one lucky break could make the difference. When he was a young man, my father played the daily num...
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