Facing foreclosure, man finds winning Lotto ticket in cookie jar
Maybe you've heard this story before. Or dreamt it.
Man cleans out old lottery tickets from cookie jar, and instead of throwing them away takes them to the 7-Eleven to check them out. And finds one of them is worth millions.
It gets better for Ricardo Cerezo of Geneva. He says his family was facing eviction and he'll use the winnings -- $4.85 million -- to pay off the home.
“It couldn’t have happened at a better time," Cerezo, a management consultant, told reporters. "I just thought, this is how God works."
Cerezo said his wife was cleaning out the kitchen and mentioned the lottery tickets that had accumulated over the past month in a glass cookie jar.
“It was either take them, get them checked, or she was going to trash them that night,” he said.
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