Lurch went to the basement to find the oldest wine possible. And turns out there was one old bag from the mothers time was kept in there. Lot of letters were inside them. One after another he started reading them.
He realized how the mother was documenting her time. And how the documented time was showing her desperate attempts to accumulate wealth. And how she had this gambling habit and she never used to miss a chance to burn the money.
Then there was the reference of her engaging in the slot machine chance work. So she made some money while working with it. For her that was the ticket to work with the small money which she could turn into more larger fund. And that turned out to be her lucky slot machine who made her the money which kept her kids from living on road.
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