Great-grandmother wins lottery after playing fortune cookie numbers
Published
Mar. 6, 2014 5:23 p.m. ET
Jimmy Traina
Look to the cookie!
Sure, Jerry Seinfeld uttered that line about the black-and-white cookie, but it also applies to the fortune cookie.
Most of you just read your fortune after downing a bunch of dumplings, General Tso's Chicken and Lo Mein while ignoring the numbers that appear on the tiny, rectangular piece of white paper.
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That was not the case, though for a 77-year-old women from the Bronx, who just won $2 million thanks to her fortune cookie numbers.
Emma Duvoll purchased a Powerball ticket after eating in a Manhattan restaurant in early February and played the numbers that were on her fortune.
Now, she's $1,246,085 richer. (Damn taxes!)
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