Bronx, NY – A 75-year-old New York woman found her fortune in a cookie.
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Emma Duvoll won $2 million in a recent Powerball drawing after playing the numbers found in her fortune cookie.
The retired Bronx resident bought the lottery ticket after dining at a Chinese restaurant in Greenwich Village.
The Daily News reports that the owner of Sammy’s Noodle Shop & Grill joked that maybe the waiters should get 20 percent of her winnings.
Duvoll, a retired deli owner, picked up her prize on Thursday. She purchased the ticket for the Feb. 1 drawing at the Hannaford Pharmacy in upstate Pine Bush.
She plans to invest her winnings and may splurge on a trip to Switzerland to see relatives.
A few years ago there was a story in the paper about how there were a vey high number of winners for a lottery. The authorities, of course, suspected some illegal shenanigans. It turned out that many, many people use the “lucky numbers” in fortune cookies to bet on the lottery. This time the numbers really were lucky for them.
Now I have a financial motivation to order my General Tso’s