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美国老妇过去5个多月来咬紧牙根养家活口，不但要支付600美元电费，还要让家里电视不要因为没缴钱被断讯，浑然不知自己中了2300万美元乐透。
美联社报导，这段期间塞维拉（Julie Cervera）的乐透彩券被搁置在车中放杂物的小柜子里。
本月1日，有人传了张照片给69岁的塞维拉，是女儿在帕姆戴（Palmdale）酒专卖店购买得奖彩券的照片。
5月开奖后一直无人领奖，乐透官员眼看26日领奖期限将至，便公布照片寻找神秘得主。
塞维拉说：「我戴上99美分的眼镜，我必须戴2副眼镜才看得见。」她认出画质粗糙照片中的人是自己的女儿，但还是没有办法阅读那上头写的文字。
她笑着表示：「因为没有办法看清楚上头写什么，我还以为她去抢银行。所以我戴上第3副（眼镜），上头说她中奖。我当时心想『不可能吧！』」
塞维拉5月和女儿一起开车，女儿觉得晕车想吐便要求她停车，让她下去买瓶水。塞维拉便要求女儿顺便帮她买张乐透。
她说：「我把彩券放在车里。家里有大约200张彩券散落各处，但我从来没有兑奖。」
守寡的残疾人士塞维拉表示，家里最近遭遇困难。去年47岁的儿子出车祸丧命，留下4个正值青少年的孩子。
塞维拉说：「我愿意用这些钱换回我儿子。」之后便开始啜泣。
她说：「我的孙子全将受到照顾，我那3个女儿也是。」
她说：「我太高兴了。我将为自己买双锐跑（Reeboks）的鞋子。」
塞维拉也领养2名儿子，年龄分别是5岁及9岁，这2人有发展障碍。
她说：「有一大部分的钱要给他们，这样我那天去了，他们才有保障。我要带他们去迪士尼乐园。我是说真的！我们可以买得起任何东西。」
Who is the mystery
woman with the winning ticket for unclaimed $23M lottery prize?
LOS ANGELES—A woman
who California lottery officials believe purchased a ticket worth $23 million
has less than a month to claim the jackpot.
The winning ticket
from Michael’s Market & Liquor in Palmdale is believed to have been sold to
a dark-haired woman in a blue or purple top on May 30, spokesman Alex Traverso
said Wednesday.
Lottery officials used
surveillance video to narrow it down to the woman as the likely purchaser.
“We want our winners
to be able to actually collect the prizes they’ve won,” Traverso said. Winners
have 180 days to claim their prize.
If the ticket isn’t
claimed by Nov. 26, the unclaimed millions will be given to California schools.
A $52 million jackpot
winner in Fremont was found in August by a public appeal.
“He and his wife saw a
picture of him on the news that night and came in the next day to claim the
prize,” Traverso said.
Liquor store manager
Ben Sadi said there is an oversized cheque and signs around the store about the
jackpot win, but he said he doesn’t think the woman has been back.
Still, the winning
ticket has been a stroke of good luck for the store’s owners. The store
received a bonus of one-half per cent of the prize, or $115,000, for selling
the winning ticket.
“We sold the ticket
the third week after our official day of opening the store,” said Sadi.
Since news of the
winning ticket got out, business has picked up a lot.
“There are a lot of
people that drove a long way to come buy tickets here,” said Sadi.
In the last fiscal
year, officials say more than $20.5 million in cash prizes went unclaimed.
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