Numbers

The story goes that my dad would dream numbers. In the old days, well before I was born and long before the state lotteries, playing "the numbers" was something that people did. Evidently he would dream numbers, and other people would play them and win. When he dreamed the number "1528," he kept the number for himself and played it every way (combination possible), but he didn't win anything. Yet 1528 turned out to be an important number. It was the number of the next house that the owned.