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For the first time in my life, I wanted to hug someone as badly as I was hugging this man right now. I took my hands off his jacket and looked gratefully in his direction.

– Thank you, sir!

– 12,000. – It was my father.

– 12,000 ra…

– Fifteen thousand! – the neighbor answered at once.

– Fifty thousand bucks! – my father kept up with me.

My rescuer looked at me questioningly.

– 100,000. – Without waiting for my answer, he said.

I saw a lot of people in the audience starting to look in our direction.

– 200,000!

Apparently my father put my mother’s brooch up for sale, so that he could buy it back himself. But I don’t know why I didn’t want to lose to him at this point. I was well aware that the promise I had just made to the man sitting next to me was beginning to take an unsafe turn. Because even without looking at a good income, I could not afford a brooch for 200 thousand bucks. But at this point I had other things on my mind. Like letting my dad know that I was playing against him?

– Ma’am? – My neighbor turned to me.