Spain: Luck smiled on her – She was begging for food outside a supermarket and won almost 1.3 million euros in the lottery

Last Tuesday (2/8) Merthedes, a resident of a humble district of Alicante, in the province of Valencia her Spainafter an ordinary day ended for her where from nine in the morning until two in the morning she stood outside a Super Market and asking customers for something to eat, clothes or money, he learned that he won almost 1.3 million in lottery.

In La Florida, Alicante, the woman, a mother of five, told Marie Ángeles Torregrosa, who sold her the lucky ticket, that “in my life I have always cried, but I have never cried for joy. You changed my life”. Now, her bank account has 1,271,491 euros. The ticket was for one euro, which the machine automatically filled.

The residents of La Florida speaking to the Spanish newspaper “El País” they reported that Merthedes’ life was full of hardships and sorrows. Few joys. “Every day for the last four or five years he stood outside the supermarket or the bank and asked for money, food or clothes”says the owner of the gambling shop, Euchenio Agoreta.

“She was always complaining about the problems in her life”, pointed out to the same img a woman who used to leave her a few euros every time she saw her outside the supermarket. Merthedes told her since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and then her life had become even more difficult and there were days when she didn’t have anything to eat.

Merthedes can neither read nor write and the residents of La Florida describe her as a humble woman. Maybe that’s why the money she earned may have suddenly extinguished her needs, but not her habits. Everyday they see her going to the same places as before but she no longer asks for help to get through the day, while the others congratulate her on her luck.

According to Marie Angel Torregrosa, Merthedes’ first purchase was to go to the supermarket and buy new slippers for five euros.