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00:00I got a call around 10.30, 10.35 something, I thought it's a prank call because I was
00:10in a hurry going to the hospital with my wife, so I thought it's a prank call.
00:14Then suddenly one of my colleagues called me, he was watching Facebook Live, so he said
00:19it's your name, have you purchased a ticket, then I said yes.
00:23Then continuously I got calls from my friends, that's the way I realized that it's me, then
00:28I checked the number, I'm very happy, I'm shocked also, really shocked, because we never
00:35expected that we'll get, because this is our fourth ticket, and we had no plan at all to
00:40take by this time of the ticket, we purchased on August 13th at midnight, around 11 o'clock,
00:4812 o'clock we purchased this ticket online.
00:50We have not planned anything because we have to get together, we have totally six patients
00:55are there with my friends, so we have to meet each other, then we'll decide.
01:00It's one ticket 500 dirhams, so we decided to buy equally shared, two tickets, there
01:06is one offer, buy two, get one free, so we plan to take ticket around 1000 dirhams.
01:14Actually one of my friend was going next week to India for vacation, so we thought he can
01:19take ticket from the airport, then last we decided to buy online, and I shared this one
01:26with my wife, she never believed that, then I showed her in Facebook that number and all,
01:31then only she believed, she is working here, and we are waiting for our baby first child,
01:37not planned anything till now, but we'll decide later.