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One slip of paper has a dot on it and whoever draws this slip is the unfortunate winner of the lottery. Toward the end of the story the narrator notes that “Although the villagers have forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones”...
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The village people have abandoned many of the original ways of the ritual but they never forgot to use the stones. Whoever drew the slip of paper in the lottery with the dot on it was the sacrifice for that year. That person would be sent to the middle of town where every single person, young, old, and family members would be waiting to stone you to death...
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