I win things. Fairly regularly — regularly enough that people remark on it. I don't know if I win things pretty regularly because I enter contests more frequently than other people, or because I am truly lucky, but perhaps it's a combination of both those factors. There be some kind of philosophical message in here along the lines of you can't win if you don't…, but I will leave you to tease that one out. In the meantime, I'm trying to remember all the things I've won and I have come up with a partial list. In no particular order:

A “chai” keychain that my mother donated to my elementary school raffle
A digital camera (later sold on eBay)
$100 from the Apple Growers Association of Ontario
a $200 gift certificate to Reitman's
tickets to see Melissa Etheridge in concert
a Sony Walkman
this cooler. I know: so glamorous on my furnace-room floor.

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this book

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another book, co-authored by a lesbian couple who got pregnant and had babies at the same time as each other, which was so terribly written that I gave it away
four tickets to a kids’ show in Toronto
a Windows phone

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