Sometimes, chance can change a life in the most unexpected way, especially those who bet with illusion in some Lottery game. That is what happened to a homeless woman in Alicante, who went from asking for alms at the door of a supermarket to win more than a million euros after buying a bonoloto ticket that cost her only one euro.
The protagonist of this story was known in the Florida neighborhood, in Alicante, where she used to sit at the entrance of a supermarket to ask the neighbors for help. In 2022, he decided to try his luck to bet a euro in the game in a lottery administration, a gesture that shortly after changing his life.
And it is that the ticket was awarded with 1,271,491 euros, becoming the largest award distributed by the neighborhood lottery administration. Mari Ángeles Torregrosa, the lottery that sold the ticket, told the story in the ‘Better late’ program of La Sexta, said that the day it was confirmed that he had been winning was unforgettable. “He was supernervious, he couldn’t believe it. We started crying, I, the people who were here, everyone.”
A change of life that did not hesitate to thank
After receiving the prize, the woman, who to date had not had an easy life, did not take a radical turn to her customs, and although she did not explain what the prize would invest, the lottery explained that she had sought advice to invest and administer it in the best possible way.
What was clear is that he did not plan to leave the neighborhood that had helped her when she needed it most. Despite being a millionaire, he did not forget his neighbors and continued to frequently visit the lottery administration in which he won the prize, and even continued betting on the same number that life had changed. According to the owner of the lottery administration, his intention was that if he touched him again he would distribute it “with the people who have always been helping him.”
That is why she also continued to visit other neighboring businesses in the area, and frequenting some of the places that sheltered it when she was a roof to return the help borrowed when she went through difficult times.