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    Gramma Was a Gambler
    Gramma Was a Gambler
    Gramma Was a Gambler
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    Gramma Was a Gambler

    By Patricia J.

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    Gramma Was a Gambler




    Dedication page:



    To all my grandsons, Jacob, Lukas, Jonah, and Brendan


    Who will always make me feel like I won lifes greatest jackpot.





    Back cover:




    In spite of folklore, luck is never a lady


    Thousands of people are becoming addicted to gambling every day across the land as casinos proliferate and people have more time on their hands because of retirement or job loss. What starts out to be fun soon becomes an all-consuming activity for people from all walks of life and all levels of intelligence. Dreams of becoming instantly wealthy soon tur

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 14, 2008
    ISBN9781467868457
    Gramma Was a Gambler
    Author

    Patricia J.

    In this book the author wishes to remain anonoymous rather than shaming her children even more.  Suffice it to say that--if you gamble--you have probably sat beside her and enjoyed her humor and enthusiasm for the slots and tables. She is highly intelligent, has two doctorates, is highly successful in her professional life but very lonely as she approaches old age because of her addiction and loss of respect from her family, friends, and relatives. She also has lost thousands by playing PENNY slots. From time to time she graduates to higher amounts but never leaves until she gives it back. In other words, she could be you.

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      Gramma Was a Gambler - Patricia J.

      © 2008 Patricia J. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 5/8/2008

      ISBN: 978-1-4343-8303-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4678-6845-7 (e)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Bloomington, Indiana

      To all my grandsons, Jacob, Lukas, Jonah, and Brendan

      Who will always make me feel like I won life’s greatest jackpot.

      Contents

      Chapter 1: To Gramma with Love

      Chapter 2: Research on Endomorphs

      Chapter 3: How I got into this Mess

      Chapter 4: Consequences

      Chapter 5: My History

      Chapter 6: My Struggle

      Chapter 7: Description of Excitement, Addiction

      Chapter 8: Living like Trash: House of Cards

      Chapter 9: Family and Other Relationships

      Chapter 10: Depression

      Chapter 11: Self Respect

      Chapter 12: As Luck Would Have It

      Chapter 1:

      To Gramma with Love

      Dear Gramma:

      My Dad said you have a sickness and my Mom says we can’t spend the night at your house anymore because of your bad habit. What does that mean? When I saw you last week you didn’t seem sick to me. And what bad habit are they talking about? I don’t think you would ever do anything bad and I don’t want you to be sick.

      I want to see you real soon.

      Your Loving Grandson,

      Douglas

      P.S.

      Patrick and William miss you too but they aren’t in school yet so they’re too little to write.

      Dear Douglas:

      I want to see you and your brothers soon, too. In fact, I can’t wait until the day your parents let me back in your life.

      But, honey, that day could be months—or years—away.

      Your parents aren’t trying to be mean by keeping you away from me. They think if they make it hard on me by keeping me away from the things I love most—like you and your brothers—I’ll quit doing the thing that upsets them the most. I wish it were that easy…

      Your mother and father think I have a problem—the bad habit—that makes me a bad person for you to be around right now. Some people, like your Dad, consider this problem—gambling—a sickness, like alcoholism or drug addiction, but a lot of other people, like your Mom, just think it’s a bad habit that I can break if I choose to.

      I think both could be right. When you’re older, I’ll explain the difference to you. Maybe by then I’ll know the difference myself.

      But for right now, let me explain it this way.

      When you and Patrick and I play Fish, War or Crazy Eights, remember how excited you get when you beat me?

      Well, in a way, playing a game of cards that ends up with winners and losers is considered a game of chance. But because we’re playing cards just for fun, we don’t call it gambling, we call it family entertainment. And because we do it with just family and friends we might have over to our house, it seems like a good way to spend time together.

      Some people call any game of chance gambling but usually it takes betting on the outcome with money or something of value for the rest of the world to call it gambling. If we were betting a nickel that we would win then even a game as simple as Fish would be gambling.

      Unfortunately, I haven’t been playing simple card games at home; instead I have been going to casinos, a place where all they have are games of chance. Every type of adult card game and every type of slot machine imaginable take up floors of space where you can wager a bet for pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters or even thousands of dollars. And what I have been betting on games is not a nickel, Doug. I have been betting lots of money that I’m going to win every time—and usually end up losing all of it. I’m not talking pennies and nickels, honey, I’m talking hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

      Although I don’t play cards in casinos as often as I used to, I am very addicted to slot machines. Those are similar to the video games that you and your friends play in arcades or at home.

      You know the rush you get when you score? Well, I get the same

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