Lights blinked madly as three wild cards lined up on the slot-machine screen. Next came the bells and whistles. Vani Kumar watched in amazement as the jackpot numbers continued to roll up to increasingly higher numbers until they finally stopped, flashing a grand total of $286,665. “Girl, you have no idea what you’ve just won!” the man sitting next to her yelled. People in the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas went wild. Kumar’s father, Dr. Ravi Kumar, who was on another machine at the time, didn’t know what to make of the commotion. “Suddenly I heard all this screaming, and I thought someone had collapsed,” the doctor says. “I didn’t know what had happened. When I saw Vani, everyone was trying to touch her... More >>>
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