Today, September 24, the New York ran a remarkable story about a prison guard at Rikers Island that won the lottery. Garina Fearon actually bought the wrong ticket. She intended to play Powerball, but instead palyed the Mega Millions game. Fearon, who has experiences many hardships throughout appears to be very deserving of such great fortune. Homeless as a child, she overcame this only to file for bankruptcy as an adult. She endures daily abuse from the male inmates and supports her two children on her own. This feel-good story is a glimpse of the potential our cold world has to be uplifting; a turn of events that would make Robin Hood himself proud. The only plans she has made with her payout is to buy her sick mother a home in Jamaica. The old cliché, what goes around comes around, is yet again proven to be true.
Ikimulisa Livingston Reuven Blau, Leonard Greene. “Rikers Guard Wins $54 Million Dollar Lottery”. New York Times. New York Times, 24 September 2010. Web. 24 September 2010.
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