Complete Disbelief
Hilariously enough, the first reaction Cindy had was total suspicion since she thought that the coincidence — the numbers showed on the screen matching the numbers on her lottery ticket must have been inaccurate. Her heart racing, Cindy took out her phone and called her husband and mother-in-law so that they could verify it because she was sure there was something wrong with her eyes and she wasn’t seeing things clearly. Instead of accepting the news right away, she was full of skepticism but she was also excited and even though she was going to have a heart attack. In the end, everyone found out that there was nothing wrong with Cindy’s eyes and apparently, there were others who would be collecting big.
Complete Disbelief
Other Beneficiaries
At the convenience store, the front clerks were over the moon with excitement for Cindy and they were all smiles since one of the draw’s conditions was that the store which sold the winning ticket would also receive $50,000. They proudly showed off the receipts proving that they were also beneficiaries of this amazing lottery draw. All of a sudden, the Hills, a family from a small town who had struggles making ends meet, were about to have almost $300 million, about half of the lottery prize, but they instantly knew they needed to proceed with great caution. The Hills needed to tread carefully because an estimated 70% of lottery winners become bankrupt within only a few years from the time a large financial windfall comes to them, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education.
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