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Ten Million Dollars! What Would You Do?

What would you do if you were suddenly handed ten million dollars? Have you thought about it?

I was on Twitter this morning, trying to distract myself from a very bad mood, and someone said they had received an email from a Nigerian Bank wishing to deposit ten million dollars into her account. What luck! I asked her what she would buy first and this was her reply. “First thing I'll buy with my $10 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria is....wait for it...a donut.” I like it!

I, too, have on occasion been offered large amounts of money through spam emails, and even though it astounds me that the computer geniuses of the world can do nothing to stop these spammers from preying on those who might actually give up account information, it is entertaining to imagine what you would do with that kind of money.

Knowing myself as I do, the first thing I would buy would be a large (maybe even super large) vanilla blended from with whip, of course. Then I would go to a book or paper goods store and buy the most beautiful notebook I could find. Probably one of those expensive, leather bound ones, and then I would come home to plot.

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Much of the money would go to charity. St. Jude’s Hospital, The Red Cross, Children’s Hospital here in L.A., etc. Then there would be the music and arts programs that I would fund, which also brings me to my musical, “Room to Grow”. I would hire all the right people to put on a production of the highest quality. I would also hire a marketing team because I suspect marketing is not my strong suit.  After that would come all of the fun stuff, a house, a new car and a new wardrobe, along with lots of travel. I have never been out of the United States, and that would change quickly. I think I’d spend a few weeks in Europe writing a new novel.

So tell me, what would you do? Do you ever think about it?

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