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Fannie Davis ran her numbers business for 30 years.
Brigette says she can still picture her mother, seated at their dining room table, working.
The money Fannie earned put Brigette through college.
It allowed her to buy a home of her own in Brooklyn.
She says she plays the numbers, now in the form of the legal lottery, almost every day.
She usually plays 3-1-3, the area code for Detroit.
Can you do an impression of what it was like when your mother on the phone, when she would pick up the phone to take a number, what she would say?
Our producers are Susanna Robertson, Jackie Sijico, Lily Clark, Lena Sillison, and Megan Kinane.
Our show is mixed and engineered by Veronica Simonetti.
Julian Alexander makes original illustrations for each episode of Criminal.
You can see them at thisiscriminal.com, where you can also find information about the book that Bridgette Davis has written about her mother.
It's called The World According to Fannie Davis, My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers.
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