First Prize - Love

    Love and luck had never gone together for me.   Then I bought a raffle ticket...

    The club was packed when Beth and I walked in.   There wasn't a spare inch of floor to dance on, and the thumping beat of the music threatened to split my head wide open.
    My heart nosedived.   I must have been crazy to let Beth persuade me to come here.   I'd have been much happier sitting at home and dreaming of all the things that might have been.
    "It'll do you good," Beth had said in her well-meaning way.   "It's pointless moping over Gerry.   He won't come back, Sally, so you might as well stop wallowing in misery and start living again."

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