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Yolanda Cortez

Yolanda CortezYolanda Cortez owns and operates a bakery in Burbank. On a Friday, last April, she decided to stop at a local 7-Eleven and purchased The Next Millionaire Scratchers® ticket. As she walked outside she nonchalantly scratched the ticket and much to her surprise discovered that she was the 18th instant millionaire crowned by the Lottery since the start of the game last August. Yolanda couldn’t believe what she had just uncovered. “The only words I could manage to say were, ‘Oh my goodness’,” she remarked. Cortez is a consummate business woman with no frivolous plans for her new riches. When asked what she would do with her money she said, “I plan to reinvest it into the bakery.”


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