Donna Osborne, who lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and is 75 years old, won the lottery after a series of weather delays forced her to cancel her scheduled flight.
Osbourne bought the winning ticket from a gas station while returning from the airport last June, in the midst of a trip that was going to take her to Florida to visit her family.
Osbourne, who had just been recovering from a course of radiotherapy for breast cancer, was frustrated by the repeated delays to her flight, so she returned home while her daughter continued the journey on her own.
Had it not been for this delay, Osborne claims, she would not have bought the lottery ticket that changed her life, as she confirmed that she will continue working despite winning the prize, and hopes to travel to Alaska, where she plans to invest.
The net amount Osbourne will receive after taxes has not yet been announced, but the win has already given her new options to consider and resources to achieve some dreams that have been on the backburner.
It is noteworthy that there are two lottery prizes in the United States: “Mega Millions”, in which the grand prizes reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and sometimes exceed a billion dollars, depending on the extent of the prize accumulation across the various draws, and the second “Powerball”: whose prize sometimes exceeds a billion. dollar.
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