My Sister Tried to Cancel My Wedding Venue Without Knowing I Owned It

for her comfort, telling myself it was kindness when it was actually something closer to fear.

“I want to ask you something,” I said.

“What?”

“Do you know what the gambler’s fallacy is?”

A pause. “No.”

“It’s the belief that if you keep playing, the jackpot has to come eventually. That the mathematics of it guarantee a win if you just stay at the machine continue reading …