Old Lady Gifts Expired Lottery Ticket to Teenage Girl Who Notices Circled Letters on It — Story of the Day

A young girl got ridiculed at her birthday party after she was gifted an expired lottery ticket by the same old lady she had been fighting for; however, nothing was as it seemed.

Laura Chaney was popular … but not for reasons she liked.

Everyone in her district knew her; the lady always fed the doves in the local park. Come rain, come shine, the older woman can be found there, surrounded by her doves.

She had no kids of her own, and since the man whom she had once called soulmate died in a motor accident when she was 25, she refused to put herself out there again. When she made that decision, she became truly alone, but rather than loathe it, she embraced the change and chose to move forward with life.

It quickly became a part of her so that when she grew older and moved to where she resides now, loneliness was a state of being for her. As such, she did not see the need to involve other people in her business.

This woman refused to utter any word unless it was absolutely necessary, and her new neighbors did not like all the secrets.

“I tried to extend an olive branch to that old crone today again, but she rebuffed me. Who does she think she is being all standoffish like that?” one of her neighbors complained one day at the local sauna.

“That woman is as rude as they come, and that’s probably why she is so ragged. Only doves like her,” Thelma, the garbage collector’s wife, piped in.

But Laura did not care; she just kept doing her thing, mainly feeding the doves and talking to them.

One day, a young teen named Stacy made arrangements to go for a walk with her friend Alice in the park. If Laura was the epitome of loneliness, Stacy was the opposite.

The girl loved having friends and had always been liked by many until she made a social blunder one day at the cafeteria. It had been a simple mistake — her fork had fallen off her tray, and she...