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Why lottery timing affects meaning-making

I won $500 on a lottery ticket on the worst day of my life and now I cannot decide if that was the universe being cruel or kind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The coincidence of windfall and tragedy has created a interpretive crisis about cosmic justice.

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