My Mother's Love Is a Lottery I Always Lose
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The chicken leg was actually Anabelle's leftovers from yesterday.
Mom had come back from the grocery store yesterday with this chicken leg. She then made us draw lots, and I drew the short one again.
I hadn't had meat in a very long time, so I touched the chicken packaging, feeling a little greedy for it. And then, Mom slapped me so hard on the wrist that my skin turned a bright red immediately.
She yelled at me in disgust and said, "Have you forgotten all about the rules, Isabelle Madden? You got the short end of the stick, which means that the chicken leg belongs to Anabelle! You're absolutely not allowed to touch it!
"If you try touching it again, I'm going to chop every single one of y