By Samuel Gonzalez
02 Jul 2024, 16:45 PM EDT
If beating cancer wasn’t enough of a reason for anyone to confirm their good fortune, a woman in Pennsylvania celebrated her birthday twice over with this favorable news and, To celebrate, with the purchase of a lottery ticket, you take home $5 million dollars.
Donna Osborne, 75, She bought her Monopoly Own It All scratch-off ticket to celebrate her birthday and to celebrate the completion of her cancer treatments.The party would not end there, as she would discover that her luck against the disease had not abandoned her and, on the contrary, multiplied her blessings by taking home a prize of $5 million dollars.
In a matter of snap decision making, the Lancaster County resident shared with Pennsylvania Lottery officials that He almost missed visiting the Speedway store on Oregon Pike in Leola where he bought the winning ticket.
“I was at the airport with my daughter. We were on our way to visit family in Florida when the flight was delayed. Well, it was delayed so many times that I decided to go back home. My daughter stayed and flew to Florida,” Osborne said. “If I hadn’t left the airport, I would never have bought that ticket!”.
Osborne shared that one motivation for purchasing this lottery ticket was to celebrate the completion of radiation treatments for breast cancer and also to get an early gift for her next birthday. He never imagined that missing a flight would earn him $5 million dollars. He checked his prize in the Speedway parking lot.
“I could not believe what I was watching”“I went back to the store and asked, ‘Can you check this? Is it right or wrong? ’ And the employee said, ‘It’s fine! ’”
When she went to claim the prize, accompanied by her daughter, she recalled that she called her upon her arrival in Florida to tell her the news.
“She didn’t believe me,” Osborne said.
Despite the age and the amount obtained, The tireless lady refuses to retireOsborne has some ideas about what to do with the prize money.
“I don’t know what to do with myself, I have to move on,” she said. “I think I’ll invest part of the prize money, for sure, but then I’m going to Alaska!“.
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