California teenager wins lottery twice in one week
Rosa Dominguez won $655,555 in the span of a few days
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Your support makes all the difference.A California teen has finished the week more than half a million dollars richer, after winning the state lottery not once, but twice.
Nineteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez recently stopped at a gas station in Paso Robles, California on her drive home from Arizona. The teenager decided to test her luck at the lottery, and purchased a few $5 scratch cards.
To her surprise, one of the cards yielded the top prize: $555,555.
“I was so nervous I just wanted to cry,” she told California Lottery.
Riding high on her victory, Ms Dominguez picked up some more scratch cards a few days later. Once again, one of the $5 cards yielded a six-figure win – this time of $100,000.
The teenager told California Lottery she wants to use her earnings to go shopping and buy herself a new car.
Ms Dominguez’s record is perhaps only bested by Rodney Meadows, a fellow Californian who won the state lottery twice in one day in 2015. Mr Meadows scored $1,000 on his first card, and a whopping $10m just minutes later.
Earlier this year, a couple in Virginia won their state’s lottery three times in one month.
Calvin and Zatera Spencer won $1m in the Powerball lottery in March, and two weeks later won $50,000 on a Pick 4 game. They added another $1m to their earnings by buying a winning scratch card.
And they don’t plan on stopping.
“We're not finished yet,” Mr Spencer told Virginia Lottery.
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