A woman gave her brother some money to buy a lottery ticket for her, and it turned out to be a winner.
A LOTERIA™ GRANDE Scratcher that cost $10 ended up with a $1 million prize. But the woman didn't know she was a winner until her brother called her last year.
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WATCH HERE“I think you won,” his sister recalled him, telling her on the phone from Cardenas Market on Lincoln Avenue in Corona.
“Once in a while I give my brother $20, and because I know he loves to buy tickets, I tell him to buy me a ticket,” said J. Garcia whose first name was not provided by the California State Lottery.
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SIGN UP Garcia has played Scratchers for about five years and said that she understands the LOTERIA™ game because she played the original as a kid.
With the winnings she is thinking about buying an investment property, where she could earn rent.
But before that, she plans to buy her brother a new car.
