Jodi Ann Paterson, Playmate Of The Year, 2000

June, 2000

I Odi Ann Paterson still has the strip of paper she pulled from a fortune cookie back in December, when she was having lunch with her mother at a Chinese restaurant in Oregon. Always a bit superstitious, she was taken aback when she found not the usual vague bromide but a specific prediction: "You will be singled out for a promotion.""I couldn't believe it," she says, holding the fortune as she emerges from the bedroom of her West Hollywood apartment. "My mom told me not...

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