As he drove past farms and orchards, past areas of natural bush and through towns large and small, he couldn’t help but consider his blessings. None of this, not the city house nor the country property, Clarke nor Sasha, could have been possible without those six winning numbers. And when he thought about the person he’d been, about his depression and the way his entire group of friends had abandoned him, and about the way he’d completely withdrawn from life because of that, he marvelled at how far he’d come; at the amazing journey he’d taken this past year.
After the removalists had been and gone, Benjamin set about finding homes for everything. The furniture was all in place, but the cupboards and shelves had to be cleaned before his boxes of cutlery, crockery and kitchen utensils, his
